re: Spring Weed Guide For Lawns

Bermuda will be harder to kill. Centipede is easier to maintain but not as nice looking when well maintained.

Decisions decisions

What is the best way to kill either one while encouraging the other.

Bootlegger is right. Msma at 2 Oz per gallon will take out the centipede fairly quick.

Keep in mind before you apply this that your lawn is gonna look like you covered it in gasoline for a couple of weeks until bermuda comes back.

Apply fertilizer high in nitrogen every 4-6 weeks like a 34-0-0 or something similar and that bermuda will thrive

Depends on what herbicides are in the Weed n Feed. Should tell you somewhere on the bag how long to wait before re-seeding.

Keep an eye on that fungus...I haven't had much luck with F-stop. I switched to T-methyl.

This is what we walked in to with the house we started leasing last month. Went nuclear winter with Weed b Gone after moving in and now i'm spot treating some areas with grass seed. Whoever lived there before let their dogs run a muck and dug the shite out of the yard, notice the giant hole in front of the tree. They didn't take care of the yard at all.

Guys, I didn't notice this stickied thread. Can you take a look at my thread on the 1st page and give your thoughts? Trying to identify what type of grass I have and what to do next.

You have to take a close up picture of the leaves of both the purple and the green.

The purple is loropetalum. From the pics the green looks like a volunteer tree.

I spread some weed and feed yesterday morning. Fertilome weed free zone plus lawn fertilizer. Directions say to apply it to wet grass, then don't water in for 24-48 hrs. A little over 24 hours passed when this morning's rain hit. I got 2", and I'm guessing most of it was in a very short time frame. Is it safe to assume that the weed and feed was washed away, and another application necessary?

I had a problem last year with lespedeza (didn't know what it was at the time), and it's starting to come up again in one part of the yard. The guide on the first page of this thread says to use MSM turf (seems like a commercial type product) and another search on the LSU ag site says to use a 3 part herbicide like weed b gone or weed free zone. Anyone have experience with this weed and what works best? I've spot treated a couple times this year already with fertilome weed out. It killed most weeds, but didn't seem to effect the lespedeza. St Augustine in south Louisiana.