re: Is it time for pre emergent in South LA?

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CrawDude, how do you put down the Winter Weed Cocktail? This is back braking with a tank sprayer doing the entire yard. Can you use a hose end sprayer?

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I have 10,000 sq ft of lawn. When I first started using the mixture I purchased 3 gallon backpack pack sprayer which helped but admittedly was still a pain. Then I started using pre-emergent herbicides in fall and spring which reduced my weed load 90%+, now I just need to mix a gallon or 2 of the mixture to spot spray weeds missed by the pre-emergent. So that will be your best option going forward.

To your specific question though, I have hose end sprayer but I tend to use it for insecticides or fungicides. I personally am a little reticent to use it with herbicides to avoid making a mistake and damaging desirable turf grass, but I’m not opposed to using a premixed ready to spray herbicide product off the retail shelf. I did read the read the label on the Hi Yield Atrazine and it states to use it with a conventional compressed air sprayer, it doesn’t say anything about a hose end sprayer. Many herbicides will provide label instructions for use of hose-end sprayers if the product is suitable for that use.

Now a potential option to consider is Fertilome Weed Free Zone makes a ready-to-spray hose-end product LINK and there is also an Image ready to spray product with Atrazine LINK you could consider. Ready to spray products have surfactant already incorporated into them. If you want to consider this option you can save your current supply of atrazine and weed free zone for spot spraying, they are stable compounds with a long-shelf life.

If someone else has perhaps used the winter weed cocktail in a hose end sprayer with good results I hope they will let us know. Not having personally done it myself I’d be reticent to recommend you do this, primarily out of caution if you make a mistake the potential for damaging desirable lawn grass is high.

Not CrawDude, but we have similar opinions on this.

Pre Emerge Schedule For St Augustine
(Rough dates)

October 15th Atrazine
December 15th Atrazine
February 15th Barricade or Dimension



Mix "Weed Free Zone" with any of these if you need to kill broadleaf weeds that are already emerged when spraying.

DFW. I put mine down 1 week ago. Will fertilize about early-mid April.

I can tell you one thing, it is definitely working in my yard. Be patient. Takes a couple of weeks to work.

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put down Lesco 007 yesterday. I’m in zone 7A. Really happy about the light sprinkling we are receiving today to water it in.

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Put the same down in my landscape beds yesterday and waiting for the rain any hour now to water it in.

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Now that I got my preemerg down, my next plan is to spray the weed cocktail that I bought last year. I believe it was 24D, atrinze, and sticker stop maybe? Should I wait for a sunny warmer afternoon to do that or does the temp not really matter?? I’m hoping to get 2 applications of it down before it’s time to fertilize

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You’ll certainly get quicker foliage and root uptake of the herbicides at warmer temperature s and you’ll see the results more quickly. I believe Gamecocks22 suggested 60F +, so yes a sunny warmer afternoon would be ideal.

I’m pretty sure what I have is weed free zone. I need to go out to the shop and look

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I put the atrazine/fertilome/surfactant cocktail down yesterday. I think every weed known to mankind can be found in my yard. Hopefully this stuff works

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this good to put down now or too late? Ive been busy as hell and completely forgot.

Is this a preemergent deal or for weeds already up? i have a ton up right now.

Planning on ordering tonight and applying this weekend.

Awesome, and should I put down a preemergent at the same time?

What do you recommend? St Aug yard, probably never been treated, my first year in the house