re: Spring Weed Guide For Lawns with Weed Chart and Plant ID APP Added Pg2

I ruined my yard one year with Weed and Feed. The previous year I had used it and it made my lawn noticeable greener than the neighbors within a week. The following year I used it again, still followed the directions exactly, applied the same stuff under the same conditions, and the lawn went brown and shitty within days. Don't touch the stuff now.

I didn't have much of a weed problem before, so after that, I just stuck to fertilizing, but this week my neighbor's clover finally started to encroach. I sprayed the yard with a mix of Hi-Yield Atrazine, Weed Free Zone, and Spreader/Sticker. A lot of the weeds seem to have started wilting, but none have clearly died after about 3 days. Gonna water the lawn and give it a shallow cut in a few days, but if the weeds don't die, should I spray again or just keep the lawn cut but not cut too short and hope the grass can just outcompete the weeds?

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I ruined my yard one year with Weed and Feed. The previous year I had used it and it made my lawn noticeable greener than the neighbors within a week. The following year I used it again, still followed the directions exactly, applied the same stuff under the same conditions, and the lawn went brown and shitty within days. Don't touch the stuff now.

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Sounds like 2015, that happened across the south, including my sister and brother-in law's lawn, They wound up getting a whole new lawn sodded (paid for by Scott's) because of it.

Scotts Miracle-Gro pulls weed-and-feed variety off shelves after grass-killing complaints

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Sounds like 2015, that happened across the south, including my sister and brother-in law's lawn, They wound up getting a whole new lawn sodded (paid for by Scott's) because of it.

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Damn. Thankfully mine wasn't that bad. My lawn developed splotches of brown and sickliness, but it had mostly recovered after a month or so.

It'll take a week for it to start dying out. The cooler temps make the herbicides work slower.

Back yard is full of bluegrass. Just sprayed it with altrazine. Hope it knocks that crap out. Will it kill the seeds?

It should knock it out. Atrazine works as a pre-emergent for poa annua when applied in late fall.

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Anyone know where I can find some 15-5-10 fertilizer in the BR area? I tried Home Depot Louisiana nursery and cleggs but they didn’t have any.

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A 16-4-8 or is more common (atleast in SC). Try asking for that.

So is it ok to mix two treatments in the same yard sprayer. As in 1.5oz atrazine and 1.5oz 2-4D (or something else) within the same gallon yard sprayer. Or would that cause too high of a chemical concentration?

Many chemicals are safe to mix, following the general rules of:
1 Fill the tank ¼ to ½ with carrier and
begin agitation
2 Add compatability or defoaming agents
if needed
3 Pesticides, in the order of WP, DF,
WDG, F, FL, ME, EC, S, SP
4 Crop oils or surfactants

But for the small amount you are working with, just go separate.

Whenever you start seeing dallis grass again, spray it. It's a contact killer.

The younger the grass is when you spray the better.