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What type of weed, and how to kill?

6 years ago

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What type of weed, and what product to use to kill? I tried all products like Ortho Weed B Gone, Spectractide weed stop but it keeps coming every year. My trugreen specialist told me his treatment will not kill that, since that is a special type of grass. And it has been there in my plot before my plot was sodded 3 years back. Please help. The trugreen specialist asked to use some sponge and roundup, is that an option?

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dchall_san_antonio
6 years ago
For our purposes there are two kinds of plants: grasses and broadleaf plants. Usually they are easy to distinguish from each other. Weed-b-Gon kills many varieties of broadleaf plants like dandelion, dichondra, spurge, dollar weed, and other plants with leaves. Grass has blades making them easy to distinguish from broadleaf plants. There is a product called Grass-b-Gon that would kill the weed, but since it is growing in grass, the GBG product will also kill the surrounding grass.

RoundUp would work and so would GBG. You could either paint the weed with RU/GBG or you might be able to mask off the rest of the surrounding grass with cardboard leaving only the weed sticking out. Then spray the weed and remove the cardboard.
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