re: Can I get advice/tips for my lawn after the winter? ::Updated with pics:::

quote:

---

This is a good reminder to those new or learning about lawn weed control that there are some perennial and annual lawn weeds, dichronda being one, that are difficult to control and often require 2 or more treatments with the recommended herbicides to kill or suppress them, and this is often stated on the label of the herbicide

---

Yep. I was 2 full yard sprays of the Cleggs cocktail, one spot spray of MSM and a spot spray of the cocktail again before I knocked out what I was attempting to. On my two full sprays I was a gallon per the yard. On my spot spray, I still did the gallon mix and really nailed those spots hard that I saw the weeds. They are still there scattered about, but the large areas I was fighting are dead. My yard temporarily looks like shite, but I'll spread some sand and if it's like the previous spots, the St Aug will slowly creep in. This was a tough battle, but thanks to the help in this thread, it looks like I'll win the fight.

Looks like dallis grass

Apparently Celcius suppresses it. I just wiped some in my yard with roundup to just nuke it.

Bump in the hopes that Craw or Ronk read this.

The top photo I see plants with Y shaped seed heads that indicates Bahiagrass. If so, that’s good because the MSM Turf you bought will kill it, but likely multiple applications will be required

Now, that same photo has has another plant that seems to have a cluster of 3 seed heads, unless it’s just the orientation of the photo, so I’m not sure. Could be some Dallisgrass - you might have two weeds.

Here is photo of both weeds with descriptive characteristics with a pic of the seeds heads in the insert, compare the seedhead with what you are seeing in the lawn and let us know what you think. I hope its not Dallisgrass as it’s difficult to control in St Augustine.



Link to this weed guide - page 116. Weeds of Arkansas

The darker green grass where your sewage line is located suggests some leakage in the line - sewage waste is high in nutrients.

I had a little bahiagrass grass in my yard a few years back and it took a couple years to eliminate it with multiple applications of MSM Turf. Seems like I’d spray every month or so during the summer. Mature plants take a while longer to kill so be patient.

Dallisgrass - I’m fortunate not to have have any - but it’s a tough one. Here is a good article on Dallisgrass control and there have been more than a few threads on Dallisgrass recently on the H&G board. LINK. But I’d wait a bit until we or someone else can positively ID it before you go to a lot of trouble, but for small amounts of Dallisgrass I think just spot spraying it or wiping it with glyphosate (“roundup”) might be the best approach.

Thanks for the help, once again.

I went get 10 fresh squares of sod just now. I'm going to fill in the areas that left dirt patches from finally killing the dichondra. I'll wait for my grass to grow, so I can identify the dallisgrass areas easier and then hit them with MSM after the rain next week.

The end of the month/beginning of next is my next scheduled fertilizer date. Should I do anything different, such as fertilize now or wait, with the fresh sod I'm laying down?

Usually best to wait a couple days after spraying before cutting grass, and vice-versa, that is if you cut grass first, wait a couple days before spraying. And don’t spray the pieces of sod.

It’s OK to cut the new pieces of sod.

That looks like dallis

Herbicide damage/suppression or chinch bugs possible. Pull some of the grass blades out and post pics. Make sure you get the sheath on the pic.