Help! Crabgrass is taking over!?
Question:I live in Central Florida...have hoed...have weedeated..I have used Roundup for broadleaf weeds and for weed and grass...I have hoed up half my yard...but cannot get the crabgrass and dollar weed out. I know the dollar weed is there because of the moisture. We have a clay bed about 5' deep, so the yard does not drain well..I thought Roundup would kill anything...but not this stuff.HELP!
Answers:
Is the crabgrass mixed in with your lawn or is it in your planters? We're in California, but also have clay and have, in the past, been plagued by crabgrass.
My husband and I dug up (entirely) several planters and then covered them with black plastic. The heat under there for several days in a row will kill just about anything. Then we put down landscaping fabric and replanted the beds. We then covered everything with about 4 inches of redwood mulch. It's been about 5 years now and the crabgrass only pops up here and there. We're able to keep on top of it with an hour or so of weeding about twice a month.
If you don't want to dig up everything, you can try just digging up part of the planter, pulling, digging, and spraying the weeds and then put down landscaping fabric around the plantings you want to keep. We tried that in another planter. It wasn't nearly as effective, but was a decent solution.
I have crabgrass still growing under (and through) some ivy geranium. That I haven't attacked yet. For now I just cut it as close to the ground as possible and it doesn't really show through the plants.
Good luck. I know it's a pain in the fanny.
Have you tried weed n feed?
There are a few things you can use. Check out http://www.1800topsoil.cpom to see if they have someone local who can help you. Good luck!
Walmart does sell a Consentrate just for killing CrabGrass. Look in their Garden Section for Spectricide Crab Grass Killer... It works
TRY CENIPEED GRASS. IT STAYS LOW TO THE GROUND,
(EASY TO MOW), AND YOU CAN BUY SOME OF THOSE SQUARES WHERE THE CENIPEED GRASS HAS ALREADY
GROWN INTO THE DIRT CUT SOME SQUARES OUT OF IT AND DIG A SHALLOW AREA IN LAWN, PLACE SQUARES IN
SHALLOW AREA, WATER REAL WELL AND THEN JUST WATCH IT GROW... AND ALONG WITH IT GROWING, THE CRAB GRASS WILL DISAPPEAR. IT CHOKES THE CRAB GRASS OUT. MAKE SURE YOU CUT THE CRAB GRASS REAL LOW WHEN DOING THIS...
GOOD LUCK!
ROBIN IN NC
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