re: Spring Weed Guide For Lawns

Weed free zone's main ingredient is 2,4-D so you should see results in just a few days after application.

(You're safe to apply it up to 90°)

So I just bought one of those soil test kits from lowes. Not sure if they are worth a shite but I need some help. Front yard is a weedy mix of st Augustine, centipede, and bare spots. Back yard is in pretty good shape. St Augustine with only a few bare spots mainly because of no sunlight. Both front and back yard showed a ph of around 5.5-6. They also showed to be very low in N and P, while K seemed to be normal or even a little high. Should I start with lime now? Then put down a fertilizer? TIA.

If you have seen the plants wilting, the chemical has been uptaken. Most chemicals won't be affected after about 2 days.

I sprayed weed b gon a couple of times over the last few weeks. Since I did that is there any need to use something like weed and feed or should I just use a feed? If just a fertilizer, which one. I believe I have centipede by the way and I'm in Gonzales if this makes any difference to anyone

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Right now, your preemergent from the fall should be carrying you until April. If you didn't apply a preventive, you're looking at winter broadleaves. Trimec, Speedzone, WeedFreeZone, etc should take care of that. Poa annua, or Winter bluegrass is probably rampant, but don't worry about killing it- warm weather will do that. Just prevent next year. Crabgrass germinated early this year with the mild winter...usually an annual to prevent.

No way that's ever an option...I turned a hay field into a ball field in just two growing seasons. Granted, it's no Celebration variety Bermuda turf, but I manage the existing Bermuda good enough with growth regulators to make it viable for Dixie youth play.

More than 1# of nitrogen per year will onset centipede decline...Centipede is called the lazy man's grass for a reason, you can fertilize it to death. A good general for centipede is 0-5-15. I fertilize with 0-5-15 twice a year, once in the spring and once in early fall. This is my centipede going into the fall last year




Centipede is pretty forgiving, especially compared to something like turf Bermuda

How big of an area we talking about?

And what lawn grass ya have?

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