firstandgoal, Thanks for the info. That sounds reasonable to me. I hit a bit of the lawn last night before dark - hopefully it will rain today/tonight at get the rest wetted down enough, or I'll be back out there. And thanks for confirming that I got it down in time. I missed last year and was a little worried I was late for THIS year, as I saw some forsythia blooms around town.

Yes you should have used it in the fall and you should have used it much earlier in the spring. Using it now is a waste of money. Preem only affects seedlings and keeps them from taking root. You already have full blown weeds. Now you need to use a regular herbicide like Weed-B-Gone for the broadleaf weeds. I would wait until you mow the bermuda for the second time and then fertilize. Two full weeks later, you can come in and spray the boadleaf weeds. Weeds die best when well fertilized. For grassy weeds the only solution in a lawn is to pull them. Well I suppose you could try spot spraying, but the Grass-B-Gone products will also kill any bermuda that it gets on. Of course being bermuda, death is only temporary. Some grassy weeds will die naturally when you mow low and with the summer heat. Some love the summer heat - crabgrass for example. Some of your grassy weeds will be the bunch type of grass. Those can be pulled out relatively easily up to 2 days after a rainstorm. Later than that and it becomes much harder to pull them. Where do you live that the bermuda is still brown??

lainey_6b_va - you need to get that pre-m down fast. You may miss the weed prevention window and have to control weeds the rest of the summer if you don't act quickly. Any pre-m will work now...doesn't have to be Halt's, but if you can find it, fine. I get mine at Lesco, HD, home and garden/nurseries, etc. Also, if you can only find it with a fertilizer combo, that will work too, but is has to have "crabgrass preventer" or something similar on the bag (ex: Dimension/Balan/Team Pro). Also if you have fescue or bluegrass and can only find the weed and feed combo, I wouldn't do it but one time...it's getting a little late now for fertilizing. NCSU recommends not fertiling after March 15. arjo_reich - you say Tupersan comes in liquid form now? I bet that stuff cost you a bundle. I used it before, but it only lasted about 4 weeks.

There are several products which will help. Eptam is available for home use and will prevent many annual grass and broadleaf seeds from growing. If already growing when applied, it will have no effect on the growing weeds, though. It also needs to be worked into the top inch or two of the soil as soon as it is applied. A day or two of direct sunlight will break it down to nothing. Any weeds growing prior to the emergence of the first spears in the spring can be sprayed with glyphosate. Products with 2,4-D will control broadleaves once they are growing if applied right after picking when there are no asparagus spears showing. 2,4-D will cause the asparagus to curl if you do get it on any growing spears, and while it doesn't kill it, it certainly holds it back for a while. There are also several herbicides available only for agricultural use that will provide good control of weeds in asparagus. If you get at it while they are small and the ground is moist, a light hoeing in the spaces between the crowns will also do an excellent job of weed control. I don't find hand weeding among the plants to be that bad when the ground has good moisture so the weeds will pull easily. Later season weeds don't usually get too far if you have several rows of plants as the ferns create a dense shade on the ground and choke the weeds out as long as they were controlled early and not allowed to establish until after the ferns have created dense shade. I generally prefer to make a herbicide application before the first spears emerge, then do some hand weeding while picking to remove dandelions and other perennials.