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Nutsedge
Posted on 9/3/24 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 9/3/24 at 12:18 pm
have a ton of nutsedge in my flower beds. I pull them but they are back within a day or two. I have read that the nutsedge spot spray works well so i am going to try that. Any other tips to prevent it from returning?
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Posted on 9/3/24 at 12:30 pm to HardBall31
It's one of the only weeds I know of where pulling by hand makes it spread even more so that might explain your issue.
Get a packet of sedgehammer on Amazon for like $15
Get a packet of sedgehammer on Amazon for like $15
Posted on 9/3/24 at 12:31 pm to HardBall31
You can pull them but unless you are pulling the nuts out from the soil it'll keep coming back and expanding.
Posted on 9/3/24 at 12:44 pm to TheBoo
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You can pull them but unless you are pulling the nuts out from the soil it'll keep coming back and expanding.
I always thought the same thing but there are internet people who think you shouldn't pull at all. Use Sedgehammer or one of the other targeted sedge herbicides. If the "no pull" people are right, I'm mad as hell at my mom and dad for making me pull all of that grass in their garden growing up
Posted on 9/3/24 at 12:57 pm to NASA_ISS_Tiger
What about mowing and mulching it? Does that make it spread a bunch?
Posted on 9/3/24 at 3:40 pm to HardBall31
One treatment isn't going to work.
It will kill what you see but more will come up again.
Will take a few treatments over time.
I use a bottle of Sedgehammer.
It will kill what you see but more will come up again.
Will take a few treatments over time.
I use a bottle of Sedgehammer.
Posted on 9/3/24 at 3:53 pm to bonstonker
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I use a bottle of Sedgehammer.
Albeit more expensive, Certainty works great on sedges as well.
Posted on 9/3/24 at 4:28 pm to HardBall31
Nutsedge, like any other perennial, begins moving “food” it produces from above ground growth (leaves etc) to below ground storage in structures such as rhizome, stolons, or as in the case of nutsedge, tubers (the nutlets), in the fall of the year. So somewhere tween mid Sept and end of October is optimum time to apply something like Sedgehammer so it gets moved along with the “food” down into the tubers/nutlets and kills them. So the sedge cannot come back the following year. By pulling the plant and leaving the tubers, they just keep coming back. Spot spray with Sedgehammer and a good quality nonionic surfactant to help the herbicide spread across the leaves starting in a couple/3 weeks. You may have to do this multiple falls to completely eliminate the population.
Posted on 9/3/24 at 10:53 pm to HardBall31
Sedgehammer doesn’t do shite to the sedge we have in W Houston.
Dismiss kills it with quickness, and one bottle will last you a year or more. Spray as soon as you see it, even if it’s twice a week.
Dismiss kills it with quickness, and one bottle will last you a year or more. Spray as soon as you see it, even if it’s twice a week.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 7:40 am to HardBall31
I sprayed Image on the crazy amounts of Nutsedge in my bermuda in the back yard about 1.5 weeks ago. It looks like it absolutely did the job on the nutsedge, the bermuda definitely felt it, but i feel its rebounding. Hopefully with the rain in the next few days, the bermuda will make a comeback. The image was cheap and at walmart and you could try in the landscape.
Posted on 9/4/24 at 6:05 pm to LSUTIGERTAILG8ER
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Image
Definitely wouldn't spray that in the flowerbeds. Especially around roses and any other flowering plants.
This post was edited on 9/4/24 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 9/4/24 at 6:17 pm to LemmyLives
Will Roundup work? I have some the older version of it.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 12:04 pm to HardBall31
I use any kind of concentrated weed killer (roundup, etc) at 100% strength and pour it in a little spray bottle. When I see it coming up I spray that SOB.
Leave it, do not pull it until it is dead/brown.
And you keep doing that as they come up, and over time they will lessen down to nothing.
But you have to be vigilant.
Leave it, do not pull it until it is dead/brown.
And you keep doing that as they come up, and over time they will lessen down to nothing.
But you have to be vigilant.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 1:34 pm to MDB
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Will Roundup work?
I sprayed glyphosate on some in a rocky area. Took 8-10 days but it died off. Ortho Nutsedge in a Bermuda area killed it in 2 days. Haven’t seen either area re sprout yet. This was easily a month ago and we’ve had rain lately.
This post was edited on 9/5/24 at 1:38 pm
Posted on 9/5/24 at 4:55 pm to PerplenGold
Just go to Home Depot and get one of the black spray jugs of Spectricide with nutsedge killer. Just go around and spray each one and they will be dead in 2-3 days.
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:32 pm to HardBall31
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Any other tips to prevent it from returning?
Posted on 9/6/24 at 1:41 pm to PerplenGold
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sprayed glyphosate on some in a rocky area. Took 8-10 days but it died off. Ortho Nutsedge in a Bermuda area killed it in 2 days. Haven’t seen either area re sprout yet. This was easily a month ago and we’ve had rain lately.
The day after posting this and some of the nutsedge that was brown is now turning green. These were sprayed with the Ortho product. Glyphosate areas look to be dead dead so far. Lots of the Ortho area still looks dead but not all.
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