Is your grass growing yet? If so then fertilize now and in 2 weeks try spraying the weeds again. Try to wait until the grass is growing or else you are only fertilizing the weeds. Weeds seem to die better when well fertilized and healthy.

Thanks for the follow up dchall. I live in eastern nc. Out of the last 30 days it has rained 20 of them. Pretty good rain at that. Probably 8 inches or more. I try to cut my grass every 4/5 days weather permitting. I can't really cut lower than 2 inches without scalping in a lot of places. I'm in the process of leveling out my lawn. I've been reading all of your advise on the subject. I've been trying to find the list where the guy leveled his yard and it showed his contraption he pulled behind his lawn tractor. I can't find it anywhere. If any one has a link I'd appreciate it. Back to the button weed. I fertilize my lawn every month but every time I do we get a bunch of rain days after. I've only lived here 4 months. House been empty for two years prior. My fertilize guy sold me some triplet to spot spray on the weed and it work kinda. Hurts the grass a little too. But it is spreading out of my control. That is why I'm looking to use a hose end sprayer for a larger application. Any help would be Appricated. Thanks.

serenasyh since you referenced my web site (OrchidsAmore) on the use of Vermi-Liquid I will expand it for you. I am a commercial grower and have used nothing but Vermi-Liquid in the greenhouse for the last two years. It has to be the liquid from the worm beds not the compost tea being sold as 'worm tea'. Vermi-Liquid is the proper name and it was sold as worm tea until worm farms started putting the compost in water to call it Tea. The compost is not effective against insects and it is only a weak fertilizer. I rarey see any insects on my palnts. We spray once a month and I have not had meally bugs or scale in the two years. It is very effective against thrips, but thrip eggs hatch every three days or so. You need to treat 3-4 times over a week to ten days to kill the newly hatching eggs. This is the same for most insects. Most people stop the treament too soon, and while they killed the insects they let the new generation hatch. Compost tea is a weak fetilizer but the Vermi-Liquid has a chemical in it called ceitanese. Ceitanese has only one characteristic in that it dissolves ceitain. It is harmless to us, but but ceitain is the skelton of an insect. To them it is fatal. There is a great deal of research on the web about the use of worm tea. But it is the liquid that is referenced not the compost. most of it is about the beneficial effects of foliar feeding with the liquid. The University of Ohio has several papers on its use for food crops. It is millions of microbes in the solution that are symbiotic with plants. It feeds the plants and reasearch has shown it helps retain 30% more moisture in the roots of the plants. The product is safe enough to drink, although, the thought of drinking worm ezcrement could make me sick. A customer's dog ate a 16 Oz bottle one day (plastic bottle and all) with no ill effects. It is very effective against black spot on roses. Effectively the ceitainese is like throwing acid on an insect. Large flying insect like aphids will leave the area. I had one spraying eliminate several thousand aphids on my roses. Poisons would take days to eliminate them but the irritation cause them to leave. It will dissolve scale on orchids in one treatment. Scrape a live scale off a plant and crush it with your fingernail. It is green inside. After Vermi-liquid the next day when you do it again and the scale is brown dust when crushed. This is a very simple test to see the results. It is the only thing we have ever found effective against the Asian Scale that attacks Sago Palms in Florida. For those not opposed to poisons, Bayer Ant Killer is extremely effective against thrips. Thrips are the bugs that suck the jouice out of flwoer buds, especially Dendrobium and Vanda. When the bud shrivels and dies without opening it is a sign of thrips. They are very hard to see without a magnifying glass The active ingredient is b-cyfluthrin. This is used in most commercial greenhouses as on ingredient of an insect spray. The nice thing about the Bayer is that is is a granular powder that can be applied directly to the potting medium. It then works as a slow release systemic poisen and you do not have to worry about reapplication. It is very effective against an active thrip attack. I do not find that the amount used was critical. We have used it on some highly infected plants in the gardens by sprinkling some of the granulars on the medium. I do not know how effective it might be against other insects.

Thanks for the replies. I sprayed on a cool evening, we've had recent significant rainfall, and I followed the instructions for mixing. No other plants sprayed at the same time were affected. I have some other clems and roses mixed, though this one probably got more spray on the clematis than most of the others. I haven't ruled out some other cause, such as clematis wilt or rabbit damage yet. I'll take a closer look when it stops raining. Mike