Get Rid of Crabgrass in the Lawn
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2023
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Doc talks about treating crabgrass with varying methods and how the heat may impact our lawn and applying them. Many with newly seeded lawns have the same problem so it's critical to read the label carefully.
Different crabgrass treatments have detailed information on the labels so please take the time read. - Навчання та стиль
I grew up on and still own the farm my grandfather cleared and worked since 1959. Our corn was stored in what grandpa and dad called "corn crib". Thanks for sharing.
Your videos are very helpful to me as I have now become a big fan of Bermuda grass -- I put some down on the north side of my house after I aerated the land and spread some topsoil-sand mixture--it's coming up now. I thank you.
Thanks again for the videos. I hope you will give us an update on how well the Drive worked on the crabgrass.
Thanks for this--my onlly success with getting rid of grabgrass was using a pre-emefgent several years in a row on my centipede grass lawn--it is completely gone now and did not harm my lawn at all.
I just started treating my lawn (almost 1/2 acre) which should be Bermuda grass but is at least 90% weeds, mostly crabgrass. It's gone untreated for years. I bought the BioAdvanced concentrate and the hose end sprayer you recommend. I bought the surfactant and the blue dye which was so useful to let me see where I was spraying and when I ran out of product. It's been hot. I sprayed after 8pm when it was below 85 degrees. After 2 days I can see the crabgrass yellowing and browning out. I will need to retreat because it's so heavy. I started in the back yard in case I messed up but the only issue I see is I didn't cover some areas as well. It's going to be below 85 (that's like a cold spell for July in Western TN) for another 5 days so I plan to treat the front yard next. I have the Anderson's Professional PGF 16:4:8, Super Juice and Urban Farm's Liquid Lawn Fertilizer to help support my Bermuda grass as I kill the weeds. I expect it to take a few seasons and some trial and error on my part but you said in multiple videos I watched don't be afraid to be aggressive. So, I'm finally doing it. Previous services I paid good money for either killed my lawn along with the weeds or seemed to feed the weeds. I figure I can't do any worse! We just had another round of torrential rains and straight line winds. Only a little damage to one tree and a few fence boards - so grateful the power didn't go out as we've had bad storms and power outages twice in the last month. Thanks for all the product advice on your website and channel as well as the how to videos. I think I'm using a combination of several videos you shared but seeing you do it different ways and getting results with all of them gave me the courage to try this myself. Thank you!
question: if you only have a small handful of crabgrass, why not just rip them out by the roots?
Curious as well . I have a single spot I feel is crab grass .
I do this for crabgrass and goosegrass all the time. If you don't get all the root though they're great at regeneration. I have spots where j thought I got all the crabgrass just to see it return in a couple weeks. If you have bermuda you can transplant a bermuda sprig into the patch you remove grassy weeds from to try to cover it up
@@RiskOnTradingback breaker and in 90 plus degree heat wave.
@@artieartya just thought maybe it didn’t work by hand for some reason and required a chemical kill
If its just a few, yes rip it out.
Loved seeing your neighbor's property!
We had an old farmhouse in the family, including an old "corn crib" made of hand hewn logs.
The Indian trading Post is extremely interesting to me. When I was a child I lived on an Indian reservation in the trading post. My grandfather and my father to a lesser extent we're both heads of the trading post on Cheyenne Agency South Dakota. It was the Lakota Sioux Indian reservation before white man built a dam and flooded the entire agency. Or to put it a better way and flooded the entire reservation and made everything move. At that point my father got a different job and my grandfather retired.
Woulda liked to have seen some video of the work you've done w drainage and the storm. The footage of your neighbor's property was awesomw
Doc, by the pond is it possible that you put a stems snake just to block off the run off towards the pond ? Just an idea
Hey Doc, love all your content on everything. I love your neighbor’s property and the history that goes with it. Is this in N Ga by chance? She may have called that small building a corn crib, that’s what my granddaddy called his. The Indians that were in that area if in N Ga would have been the Creek and the Cherokee. I live in NW Ga in Bartow Co and I’m right on the Etowah river and I look for artifacts every time I set foot outside my door. My backyard is full of Flint and Churt rock and I’m talking softball size. The neighbors think I’m cracked out because after every rain I’m out in my backyard with my digging stick looking for arrowheads. I’ve found a couple and I believe they were either going to be jewelry or game pieces. Two perfectly oval slick marble size stones that were right next to each other when I found them! Thanks for the great content and stay cool my friend!
Threw down dirt booster+ about mid spring, 2 bags for 8k sqft, would you say to little or just right? 8:23
Hey doc. What's the best fungicide to have. I have a cool season lawn in Georgia.
I have learned so much from your videos on Bermuda. I do have one question. How do you kill quack grass in Bermuda? It looks like crabgrass but quinclorac wont kill it.
QUESTION: so I put compost about 3in on top of my dirt now I'm a single person has been raining like crazy and mean and crabgrass is gone crazy after I planted. And I have been pulling it up and I have to reseed anyways cuz not all the grass seed grew. Now my next question is is I have another section that I haven't planted yet because I've been dealing with this section. I'm only one person I work over 50 hours a week and my God there's been so much rain. So now there's a ton of crabgrass in that new area where I had spread out loom. People may wonder why didn't you do the grass all at once while I'm only one person I can only spread straw so fast. Plus I get up so early that watering one section at a time I didn't realize would have been so crazy for me to handle so early in the morning. Anyhow I want to kill that grabbed cross in the next section so like in a few weeks I can plant it. But I don't want to kill the new grass eat so I'm just going to have to pull it unless somebody has suggestions
Thanks Doc!
How is the centipede grass doing?
Baking Soda works great on Crabgrass and doesnt mess with Bermuda or St Augustine. You just need to apply it to damp grass. Just took out a whole bunch in Houston TX with 100F+ weather. I know it sounds too good to be true but it just works.
You sure it didn't kill your grass?
Doc, I have a 2 acre farm pond full of crappie, bluegill, sunfish, bass (we have caught several over 6 lbs. The past 2 years my gooslings go from 7-10 at hatch to zero in 2 weeks. I have seen a large snapping turtle on the bank before the geese hatched. I am kind of a wilderness kind of guy but if I need to kill a few snappers to give the gooslings a chance I will. If you had to guess would it be the snappers or some of my 5-6 lb bass? Great Video's.
Thanks Doc.
What about weed and seed products? I just bought Scotts Turf Builder Weed & Feed a few weeks ago , haven't put it down yet. With all the rain going down here and the heat I haven't put it down yet. New Jersey location
I sprayed the other day early am when afternoon turning 91. My thought was, even if lawn stressed ‘should not’ die out. And not willing to wait till it’s cooler - which could be Oct and when I was to overseed anyways.
I have a bunch of crabgrass. I used a sharpshooter shovel to go down far enough to get the whole root. I had to fill the holes with soil. The small Areas I used a hand pitchfork. Lots of work, but worth it
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I bought Grandpa's Weeding Tool from Walmart and OMG it is life-changing! It doesn't leave holes and gets the whole root the first time with just a press if your foot!
Doc, i have Bermuda and did a overseed but since i cut the lawn pretty low the crab grass is getting very bad. So you’re saying just get a spray that will not hurt the new seeds?
Will this work on dallas grass?
@how to with Doc have you talked about “Bermuda Grass Decline”? You mentioned looking at the lawn guides for brown spot issues. Googling my symptoms of gradual brown spot thinning to bare ground seemed to match the condition of Bermuda Grass Decline. Seems to be a fungal issue. You product link to the BioAdvanced spray bottle for fungus shows on the bottle to spray yard at a 2X rate for this. Just wondering how common this is. In The South with high temperatures and high humidity fungus can be a problem.
Test for armyworms with the soap test... then test for grubs... the assume fungus
My crabgrass is absolutely crazy if I don’t do a pre emergent and most years two spray applications during prime growing season. I’ve always used DRIVEXLR8. Does a great job and seldom stress’s my Bermuda. However, with newly seeded/baby Bermuda, I always wait 1 month before applying DriveXLR8.
I'm a month in without seeing Bermuda germination (Pennington seed). Does that mean I won't get any or is it just too hot? 100-106 here in Texas. I'm watering with a sprinkler for 30 minutes twice a day. I watered by hand for the first couple weeks then went to sprinkler. At this point I literally look a dirt farmer to my neighbors 🤦♀️
Are you still using Chicken feed on the lawn?
Doc I have a mix of st augustine and crab grass creeeping into my zoysia from my neighbors lawn, any product suggestions for something that would kill both and not harm the zoysia. thanks
Read the labe to be sure, but I am pretty sure quinclorac will take care of St. Augustine and Crab Grass and is safe for Zoysia. Please read the label to confirm..
How about a paintbrush on a stick?
You have any suggestions on getting rid of Bahia in bermuda... I double treated with pre-emergent this year, but now the Bahia is spreading like crazy...
Metsulfuron-methyl at 0.5oz/acre will destroy the bahia.
Doc, are you positive that is Army Worm and not Ear Worm? Hard to identify by the video. I was just curious. Thank you for the years of videos you have posted, they are tremendously helpful.
Solitaire is another herbicide for crab grass. Read the label for tolerant grass type. DO NOT use on st augustine. It contains sulfentrazone so caution may be required in the hot climate right now.
Doc,
Did u have crabgrass in that area before seeding? I have always had a suspicion that crabgrass seeds come with sod/seed. On a couple of occasions I have noticed that crabgrass shows up after a lawn is laid on areas that previously had no existence of it.
Yes, all over the farm. That area had every weed known to man.
Question !!! How do we get rid of Mushrooms in our lawn ??
Hi Doc! Been watching your videos for over 2 years now. I need some advice. Hoping you or some of the other gardening enthusiasts here will reply. I moved into a new property couple of years ago and the back yard had no grass. I started with putting some Bermuda seed down. It was already August (guess too late but I took a chance). The seed germinated but grass never came back out of dormancy so guess it just died. Next year I tried to put down clover with some tall fescue seed. Forget the grass, even clover did not do well. Guess these were signs that there is something wrong with the soil. Then I did soil test, treated the soil with a few things and put sod down. Now this was last year around September so was already late in the season. But grass did good. Went into dormancy and came back out. Now this season I was hoping I will keep treating and get a lush lawn. Thing is that my grass grows but is is not getting thick, I can clearly see soil and there are few problem areas where grass totally disappeared. I thought I had grubs or some other insects, I have seen them me around but not that many. So I did not take a chance of treating because I have 4 dogs and I dont want the puppies to have any issues. I have seen enough of your videos about the granular stuff that dissolves but because my lawn is not that thick and I feel they will still easily walk on top of it.
So a brief description of what I have done this season. I have used PGF complete twice!. I have used compost made with dirt booster and I have also used PGF balance on some new sod I put down this year on one side of the lawn. I have also used Humichar twice. I did do a soil test beginning of the year and everything looked good except that my iron and manganese came too high. 100.92 and 29.3 respectively. I see weeks when Im like ohh grass is doing good and then it is followed by weeks when Im like ohh what is going on with the grass it is thinning everywhere and new bald patches start to show up. Most of these products guess have iron so was wondering if I already have high iron, so is my soil too toxic and that is what is causing this? One thing in general about my soil. It is that red GA dirt and also when I first started I had to pick out a lot debris (rocks left from construction mostly) I often go out there and use tools in specific areas to see if they hit any rocks underneath and I keep doing this but for the most part the whole area has much better dirt now. Also, my yard gets about 6 hours of sun because of some trees around. Another thing I found is that everytime I dig, the roots dont seem to be more than a few inches tall, so not sure if that is normal or should they be longer at this point. Do you or any one else have any advice for me ? I am happy that I atleast have grass in my garden but as much effort I have put in I feel I should have a much better lawn but it is not happening.
Appreciate all the videos. Thank you!
Tough one... but my one catch was the 6 hours of sun. Look for a shade tolerant seed. Aerate, and over seed is my best guess. the areas of our old house that got 4-6 hours of sun never did well.
@@HowTowithDoc ahh I see. I knew bermuda needs more Sun but when I saw it come out of dormancy and greening up. I thought it was getting enough Sun but guess with the amount of Sun it gets, it will stay the way it is. Ohhh well atleast I have grass which is way better than the dirt I used to have. :-). Thanks for the reply doc.
Bermuda grass needs around 10 to 12 hrs of sun if you want a better shade tolerant grass that plays well with bermuda look for Zosia that also sell seeds but you got to water A LOT when you do seed to get it established I use Green County Fert products myself as far as iron and manganese put down humic acid they sell that to that will help unlock the nutrients to help your yard as well
What state is this? First time watching.
I'm also doing the rain dance, but nothing coming. North Texas is in a really bad drought. 100+ every day and no relief in sight! 😞
Hey DOC,how are you doing buddy,they anyway you can help me out with my ugly grass
Awesome video @howtowithdoc so extra concentrated on a paper towel and just rub them down. Would using a "kill-all" type spray be ok for this type of treatment because my crabgrass just won't go away.
Yes glypho would be fine.
@@HowTowithDoc thanks for the info, great video as always
Doc, How come your back yard don’t look so good. I figured your yard would look like a golf course 😊
Waiting for Docs bee farm
Most of my backyard is crabgrass. I've been putting the vinegar, dish soap, and salt on it. It kills it, but it grows back. I live in Arizona. Our highs have been 118 degrees, and our lows are in the 90 degrees. What can I use now?
You need something that will TRANSLOCATE throughout the plant. Not just burn the blades. Drive will work but try and wait until you are out of the 100s
@HowTowithDoc okay mid-October it is. Thank you 😊
This is my kinda paradise.
My crabgrass laughed at qc 75. It was an entire area that was very thick. Had to just wipe the area out with weed and grass killer.
I don't have crab grass here. My neighbor has it all
You neighbor's yard will share it with your yard.
Probably not army worms in your corn. Likely known as corn ear worm.
I’ve pulled crabgrass out all summer long and it grew back every time. I’m so sick of it
Luckily crabgrass is an annual and will die out in the winter!
Why don’t you just rip the plant out at the base which ales all the roots out. Probably less trouble than dealing with a Wet rag of herbicide up your nose
Mainly to show people that they can spot treat if needed. We will pull once brown and dead.
If only someone would make a herbicide that kills Bermuda grass without harming fescue….
I’ve seen some UA-camrs say that “Fusillade II” can control Bermuda and not harm Fescue but I don’t think there is anything that “kills” it.
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Hey Doc….
Just be glad ya ain’t got the DREADED GOOSEGRASS😖😖😖😖😖
Probably you have a lot of free time your video doesn't help at all.
Must be nice having Bermuda cause most weeds stand out.