re: Virginia Buttonweed is killing me.....

The MSM did a good number on my VBW, but didn’t really touch the spurge, and that shite is everywhere. Suggestions?

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The MSM did a good number on my VBW, but didn’t really touch the spurge, and that shite is everywhere. Suggestions?

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Mature spurge is more difficult to control than young plants. You could purchase Celsius, $105 per bottle at Site One if you are near Baton Rouge or Covington/Mandeville, but a bottle should last 4 to 5 years, so prorated, $20-25 per year, and it’s an excellent herbicide for numerous difficult to control lawn weeds.

You could also mix a trimec or weed-free-zone herbicide with MSM, + surfactant, to see if that might work. Do you use pre-emergent herbicides in the lawn. If not, sounds like you need to. I’ve always had a iittle spurge in the lawn but I have seen more this year than in years past.

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Which pre emergent to use and when to put down?

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Either Prodiamine (spray or granular) or Dimension (dithiopyr; granular). Spray Prodiamine is cheaper per 1000 sq ft of lawn.

When to apply, South LA
Fall - late September/early Oct, but you still have time to apply if you can do it ASAP.
Late Winter - by mid-February

Just to follow up on buttonweed that I've been dealing with. I go out once per week with a spray bottle and msm turf and spot spray. The amount I am finding is less and less each week.

Don’t use Celsius at this point. Too cool for it to be effective. This time of year I switch to tripower.

You will be ok. Soil temps are probably pretty cool but I’d except weed death, even if slower than normal

I usually pick a 5 gallon bucket of it before cutting grass.

Damn.

Actually that's a good price. There's alot more expensive chemicals you will more than likely purchase