Can I kill weeds before spring seeding / Overseeding?
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Can I kill weeds before spring seeding / Overseeding?
I did a backyard reno last fall and I now see how patch where it has been overcome by weeds. What can I use to kill them before I seed? I would like to kill them, mow and bag and then seed. I've read posts about applying drive 75 at seeding, but can I do it a couple of weeks before seeding?
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Re: Can I kill weeds before spring seeding / Overseeding?
Your posting is too vague to be answered. There is no selective herbicide that kills all weeds, including Quinclorac. You'd have to identify what weeds you have, and then check whether Quinclorac (the active ingredient in Drive 75) is labelled to control that weed.
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Re: Can I kill weeds before spring seeding / Overseeding?
I don't see enough "good stuff" to save. I see chickweed, violets (maybe), dandelions (maybe), various unnamed weeds (definitely) and a half-smoked J in the upper left corner. Save the upper left corner and RU the patch, and you can seed as soon as it's dry (2 hours?). Using multiple herbicides to save what? Seed right over the sprayed weeds (when dry) and the grass will like come up before the green weeds are completely gone.
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Re: Can I kill weeds before spring seeding / Overseeding?
Then there's my approach. Knowing there's KBG in there, I'd hit the weeds, stay on top of the weeds from here on out, get pre-M down, skip the seed, get working on the soil, keep it fed and watered and mowed (mulched) without skipping a beat, and get that lawn in great shape in a year or two. I haven't overseeded once since I started this adventure in 2007, twice starting off with someone else's neglected mutt lawn. Yes, I've seeded bare ground many times in areas that I've regraded (or killed off giant swaths of creeping bentgrass), but I resist overseeding when I know the lawn will fill in on its own. That said, someday, when I get all the other landscaping done, I'll start reno'ing.
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Re: Can I kill weeds before spring seeding / Overseeding?
For some background, I did a backyard reno last fall, and I made some mistakes. I have a couple of of patches like the pic, that require seeding and some others that require overseeding. Ok, so RU for those two worse patches, but what can I use for the overseeding sections?
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