Poa Annua Germination
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Poa Annua Preemergent Herbicides
Comments (7)I ran into the District Manager for Scott's Lawn Care about a month ago and she suggested that I use a product by Ortho called "Nutsedge Killer". On the front label it says it kills Poa Annua also. She told me that I would have a brown spot (obviously because the poa was killed), but would turn green again in a few weeks as the grass would start filling in. I indeed got brown spots and it does kill the entire poa weed where applicated, but it didn't fill in with grass, so I just put down a premium seed in the brown areas and now how poa-free green again. Unfortunately, my entire back yard is full of it in one year. It does NOT die off in the heat, and the product only comes in a small spray bottle and I've already gone through 6 bottles just to do a small area. It's going to cost a small fortune to kill off the entire yard, and my neighbors don't take care of their yards, so the stuff will probably just blow back into my yard again. If I can get it all killed off with this, I may be able to keep ahead of it by spot spraying. Good luck everyone....See MoreGrass question
Comments (34)Whoops, almost missed the thread it fell so far down the forum. I think everyone has woken up from the long winter, it seems. auteck, so your in the same position I am ... moving them dadgum hoses and sprinklers around. PITA!! I could probably run over to Middlesex for that seed. Did you have to call ahead, and when is a good time to go? I really don't want ot store that seed all summer if I don't have to. Just for clarification, I'm not gonna seed a new lawn w/kbg. I still like my tttf, so I would like to add more kbg to the mixture, so to speak. I already have some kbg growing, but it's very little at this point. Before last fall's flood-out and fungicide of my lawns I had over 13 different types of tttf blended into my lawns and looking pretty good. I was kinda thinking my lawn was close to indestuctible since I had so many different varieties. HA! What a load of crap that was. Seems the more you work at it and spend more money trying to get that great lawn the more you get slapped back. I have neighbors who don't do a dam thing to their yards but mow as close to the ground as they can, and that's it. No fert, no anythign else added. They don't even water at any time, and it still looks nice and green. It's probably junk grass if you look at it close, but from the road who can tell. I'm still a little leary of the seeding process with all those little seeds. I thought I saw where someone once mixed them in with sand, or maybe that was zoysia or something else. Can't remember....See MoreAerating and Dimension and Poa Annua
Comments (10)Hi Graswhisperer, This is all new to me too this year - my pre-renovation lawn was so choked with weeds that I never even noticed it before, but now it really stands out, just begging to be killed off... Poa Annua germinates mostly in late summer/early fall, but there can be some spring germination also. So unless I read some better advice I'm planning to put the Dimension down around August 15, and then again next March, earlier than I ordinarily would for crabgrass control. This schedule screws up my planned fall aeration, and probably any spring aeration too, so I think I will just take care of the really bad spots with a manual aerator this year over the summer, here and there, whenever I think the grass can take it, and then stop a week before putting down the Dimension on Buy_25's advice. Unfortunately, there are apparently oxymoronic perennial varieties of "annual" bluegrass out there, and a pre-emergent like Dimension won't kill them. That's why Buy_25 is recommending Prograss (ethofumesate), which I gather is a post-emergent control with some pre-emergent effectiveness as well, at least if I have read that right. But apparently that can be expensive. I need to look into that further, but below is a link on a discussion from earlier this year. Good luck! What a rotten weed. As difficult as spring seedings can be, I may never seed in the fall again. Here is a link that might be useful: ethofumesate discussion...See MoreFall Overseeding
Comments (5)Same here on both counts. I would probably look to see when the average temps start dropping in your area. Even if the temps are "above average," they would be improving every day (well, on average...) after that point. You would also have more time to throw down additional seed if necessary due to some freak heat wave and water mains disaster. I am in a similar boat with a lot of leaves in fall and have been thinking about starting a little early - if my tree guy gets here in time to get some trimming done, that is. Did you ever find those sprinklers?...See Moreamoncur
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