I would cut the cane down. I've had herbicide damage before and the canes usually don't recover, but the plant will. It may take weeks, but the new growth should be fine.

I had to spray last week for a crab grass infusion I have. I use a regular 2 gallon pump sprayer for that. I do use a backpack sprayer for fungicide. It is heavy but I manage.

Thanks so much, buford. Will do.

My gallon sprayer is about right for me but not good for bigger jobs and to make it spray in a not-so-great fan, you pump fewer times. Hard on back and not very efficient. Haven't even tackled the crab grass yet, guess you really need a pre-emergent in the spring for that and don't know if it would be safe to put in the beds.

In my head I rewrote my first post. Took two sentences to get my point across.

I really hated resorting to chemicals, but enough is enough.

Last year, I used up two spray bottles of Ortho Grass B Gon, worked just great, takes a couple weeks to kill it but only works on grass, regular and crab or Bermuda with those horrid runners. The selected spots I did outside the beds still are brown around some hosta and lilies which is nice for now. Evidently there was some problem with mislabelling so it is not available this year. I have one full bottle left of that.

Even regular grass has pretty long runners. The strip along the street is still a mess with the good clover. Maybe I'll let that be this year, gotta get all the bad I can though, awful stuff.

I called around, and there is a similar product made by Fertilome for just grass. I've got a lot under control now to the point I can use a cultivator or hoe for much of it, and it aerates the soil a little as well.

The 2 gal spray I have, which I used to use for fungicide before I had so many roses, pumps itself when I fill it by attaching the hose to it with a quick connect. But I do have to repump it about twice when the mixture gets low. Usually 2 gallons is enough for my weed issues. I love this sprayer so much I ordered two new wands for it on the itnernet (I couldn't find any replacement wands in the stores) the wands always seem to get holes in them and then the Round Up goes all over the place.

The crab grass problem is an old one. When we first moved here, we didn't have sod in the back. It was all weeds. We had it graded and sodded. But when they graded it, apparently they move all the soil around so the crab grass seeds got up on to the hill, which isn't sodded. So every since then, I've been battling the crab grass there. The lawn gets treated, so it's fine. The past two years, I didn't have any crab grass and I thought I finally licked it. But this year with all the rain, the crab grass, along with hundreds of dandelions and other weeds are back with a vengence. GRRRRRR. I'll probably have to spray a few more times. I don't like doing it either, but some times, it's the only way.

I hear you. Crab grass is tenacious, and I can't use Grass B Gon in the lawn, just beds. Spray may not get to all the runners plus seeds can lurk for years then suddenly sprout. Grrr is right especially when you've been fighting back. I let it go for too many years because you can't easily pull it and didn't know how to deal with it then.

Maybe I should have gotten what you have but don't want to invest in another one although I am thinking about getting one of those dial ones that connect to the hose to battle the beetles, have a multi-pronged plan of attack. So maybe yours would be better because you've had to do the preliminary homework.

When you spray with Sevin, do you suit up and use a mask? I read bad things about it, but it's more effective than pyrethrum, and I wouldn't spray everything, just the most vulnerable, knowing full well there will be collateral damage in the form of good insects. I don't want my new cherry trees damaged and they're past blossoming and fruiting, so see little danger to bees with those. Son offered me some Sevin dust, but that sounds even nastier than spray to deal with, and to get it under the leaves, you'd really have to poof the stuff out.