Grass or Weed

Bermuda, St. Augustine, Zoysia, Centipede, Bahia, Paspalum, etc
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Cptcameron
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Grass or Weed

Post by Cptcameron » May 19th, 2017, 7:10 am

Anyone know what this is? It is taking over my back yard.. it came up about 2 weeks ago, and is speeding like wild fire...


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marshalltj
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Re: Grass or Weed

Post by marshalltj » May 19th, 2017, 9:15 am

One of the varieties of crab grass.

TimmyG
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Re: Grass or Weed

Post by TimmyG » May 19th, 2017, 10:24 am

Yeah, that's definitively crabgrass. I presume that you did not apply a pre-M? You'll want to knock out that crabgrass while it's still young, before it crowds out your desirable grass, which it does quickly. The younger it is the easier it dies. On a cool-season grass such as mine, quinclorac is the go-to herbicide for killing crabgrass. You would need to read a label (or search the forums) to determine whether it's appropriate for your Bermuda. Alternatively, I believe old-school MSMA (harder to come by these days) is fantastic at taking out crabgrass in warm-season turf.

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