natural way to get rid of dollar weed
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Comments (1)2-4-D doesn't do very well against mock strawberry. Yeah, if you hit it again and again and again, you'll eventually get it - but it's S-L-O-W going. Try something that contains MCPP, Dicamba and/or Trichlopyr. You still may have to hit it a couple of times, but you'll get it. A lot of people find hitting a patch with Roundup less toxic, and you can reseed a couple of days later. With the again-and-again repeated herbicides, you may find other weeds getting a foothold before you completely eliminate the mock strawberry....See MoreNo organic way to rid a lawn of weeds
Comments (22)dewey1139, Salt should be used sparingly in any area where you ever intend to grow some sort of plant on purpose. Homemade salt remedies can harm the microbial life in your soil (good soil is alive and filled with many living microorganisms---billions per square foot) and the salt can remain in the soil a long time, damaging plants you hope to grow there in the future. In his book "The Truth About Organic Gardening" (which I highly recommend), Jeff Gillman discourages the use of salt as a homemade herbicide for exactly the reason I stated above. On a personal level, I already have a high sodium content in my soil, so the very last thing I'd ever want to do is add more salt to it. Some scientists have done research with boron (easily available to the homeowner in Mule Team Borax, sold on the laundry aisle) as a herbicide and found that it controlled certain weeds, like creeping Charlie. However, there again, a little boron is good and even desirable in general for good plant growth, but excess boron can be toxic to all your plants, so I wouldn't use this method unless I'd already had a soil test and knew my soil didn't have excess boron to begin with. Tons of weeds in the soil indicate poor soil. Many weeds colonize poor soil as they are adapted to it. To get rid of the weeds, improve the soil. It is that simple. Once the soil is better, the grass will grow more thickly and more lush and will crowd out the weeds. Be sure you're mowing at the proper height too. I like lawns seeded with clover as part of the mix, and I have many, many dandelions growing in my front yard and love them. We're out in the country, though, and our neighbors can barely see our house from the road and, because the house sits back 300' from the road, no one can tell what sort of lawn we have or if we even have one at all. Thus, I don't have the peer pressure of having nearby neighbors who think a suburban yard should look like a green carpet of astroturf. If I felt a certain level of peer pressure to have a perfect green carpet of lawn, I'd work on fixing the soil so the grass would be vigorous enough to keep the weeds out on it own, and I'd use a pre-emergent weedkiller (chemical or synthetic, both types are available) to prevent the weed seeds from sprouting. That's a lot easier than mechanically removing them after they sprout. I imagine if y'all go to the lawn forum or the organic forum you would find the lawn experts there who could answer your questions. I prefer growing everything else that exists more than lawn....trees, shrubs, ground covers, herbs, flowers, veggies, fruits....and even native grasses more so than lawn grasses, so I'd be more likely to try to tell you to get rid of your lawn and replace it with water-wise, native plantings and then to mulch heavily to keep the weeds out. When I have weeds growing someplace, I ask myself what the weeds are telling me. Generally they are telling me they found some bare soil and sprouted and grew there, so for beds of non-grassy plants, mulch thickly applied combined with regular hand-weeding while the weeds are small and easy to remove is the answer. For lawn grasses, a weed problem is telling you the grass is having trouble growing well and covering the ground, thereby leaving bare spots where weed seeds can sprout. In that case, the answer is to improve the soil and to make sure you are growing a lawn grass suited to your soil, growing conditions and lawn maintenance practices. Dawn...See MoreWill weed killer get rid of weed trees?
Comments (3)chicagocanine, Your best bet would be to call Ortho directly to ask, be sure to specify what kinds of weed trees you're talking about. I know from experience that if you are trying to kill buckthorn weed trees, which are found in your area, it is very difficult and I'm not sure if this would do it. There are also other suckering trees that can be a problem. You also may need to paint it the stumps using one of those cheap disposable painting sponges rather than spraying it on. For me, I've had better coverage/control this way. You also may possibly need to drill some holes in the stumps and just pour a little in to sit there. For stumps a stump killer may work better. These are all suggestions I received from Ortho for various situations. Again, I think it all depends on what weed trees you are trying to kill. I'm in a similar situation, good luck! G....See MoreHow do you get rid of Dollar Weed (Penneywort)
Comments (24)Honeybunny2 is correct about WipeOut and texasredhead is wrong that WipeOut is the same as Roundup. However, what texasredhead is referring to is another Greenlight product called WipeUp, which does contain glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup. I have seen this confusion many times. I used to tell my students that if they recommend one or the other, to write it down, similar to a prescription, so the wrong product was not purchased. One student heard an employee in an orange big box store recommend that a customer spray Wipeup on their lawn to get rid of weeds! I am sure the marketing people thought it was cute to use the Wipe in the names but it leads to a lot of confusion if the labels are not read; which they should always be read! I used WipeOut for many years on my Bermuda/St.Augustine mixed lawn. Note, the rate for St. Augustine is lower than on Bermuda as St. Augustine is more sensitive to the phenoxy herbicide ingredients. Works great on broadleaf weeds. The active ingredients work better in warmer weather if the weeds are actively growing and not drought stressed. Penoxsulam is another active ingredient that can be used to control Dollar Weed....See Morestevied
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