How To Kill Clover For Good Completely

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  • Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
  • There are many different ways to attack clover in a lawn but few ways to kill clover for good from a lawn with a single application.
    In this video, I apply two hand-selected herbicides mixed together with a surfactant to kill clover once and for all. This works if you have burr clover like me, white clover, red clover, or any other obscure form of clover in your own lawn.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 72

  • @diepenj47
    @diepenj47 3 місяці тому +5

    I use 20cc and 30cc syringes to accurately measure small quantities of herbicides. It’s much easier and more accurate than pouring from a cup. One ounce is roughly 30 cc.

  • @BoneYardLawnService
    @BoneYardLawnService 5 місяців тому +2

    Appreciate the video. I have customers who lawns are full of weeds.

  • @09jlivers
    @09jlivers 5 місяців тому +1

    Love the video as always

  • @gailh4466
    @gailh4466 5 місяців тому +1

    What's your advice for getting rid of daisies?

  • @MM-rw8jv
    @MM-rw8jv 5 місяців тому +1

    Clover drove me nuts for years. Now i fight it in my neighbors lawn. Great content. I love the channel ☘

    • @Peter-cx4ir
      @Peter-cx4ir 5 місяців тому

      What does that even mean

    • @BLEACH500
      @BLEACH500 3 місяці тому +1

      @@Peter-cx4irso it doesn’t spread into his yard

  • @MikeYeary
    @MikeYeary 2 місяці тому

    Oh wow! I didn't know Dr. House did lawn care also.

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  2 місяці тому +1

      it could be lupus...but ultimately, it won't be 😉

  • @jasonfournier
    @jasonfournier 4 місяці тому +2

    I've never had a problem killing my white clover with 2,4-D.

  • @eyeswideopen627
    @eyeswideopen627 5 місяців тому

    Wow Brian your timing is perfect like ur in my head. I have fine fescue. My neighbor has clover in his bermuda, what should he use?

  • @tjevo4g
    @tjevo4g 5 місяців тому +1

    Appreciate the video. Get a lot of clover in my back lawn during the Fall months, so I will definitely be referencing this again in a few months. Right now I'm dealing with a foxtail infestation in my primarily TTTF lawn. Would mesotrione knock it out or do you have any other suggestions?

  • @biggus6633
    @biggus6633 5 місяців тому

    Could you please give advice on how to determine mix rates when spot spraying weeds in planters and tree wells, and spraying crack weeds. I get confused when the mix is per area and not per gallon. I’m not spraying turf and can’t use roundup.

  • @conradcomics
    @conradcomics 5 місяців тому

    Ah, okay. It's the 60% Triclopyr we used to clear brush around grandpas farm. That's why such a 'small' amount. If I remember right, big-box brush clear formulations are something like 8%; likely because they don't want people to kill their trees.

  • @jahyoda
    @jahyoda 5 місяців тому

    This is awesome information....my lawn is glory ...but all my neighbors could use this... question...we have many neighborhood cats ....is there another method by any chance ?

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  5 місяців тому +1

      fun comment response, that made me smile. As for the question the safest thing to do is use FeHEDTA, it's a special liquid chelated iron product that many organic lawn care people use. I use it for a lot of things too. It's different than iron fertilizers and doesn't affect the grass, just dicot plants like most weeds. It's nowhere near as effective at killing off mature clover but it can kill off young clover just like the stuff I had in this video next to my driveway. I have a video on it here ua-cam.com/video/9tkSxGEuLdU/v-deo.html

  • @territraynor6085
    @territraynor6085 5 місяців тому

    I use Ortho weedclear with great success

  • @chrish1475
    @chrish1475 4 місяці тому

    Hi Brian, is this more effective than Tenacity? I've seen it mentined on quite a few other youtube vids. Or does that depend on the type of grass you have?

  • @lesliebehrens7252
    @lesliebehrens7252 5 місяців тому +2

    I believe the weed you are speaking of is called purslane. Apparently it’s edible (gag)

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  5 місяців тому +1

      you might be right on that. It's so far from my front door that I haven't given it much thought but since I'm preparing to seed a new section along that parkway strip I'll have to start fully identifying what's there and getting it all cleaned up. Also, I've heard of purslane being one of the most nutritious plants possible...but still gross. LOL

  • @khiaraslaw
    @khiaraslaw 5 місяців тому

    Get some Speedzone and be done with it in 2 days at the most

  • @sambo5103
    @sambo5103 4 місяці тому +3

    It's one thing to let grass grow tall when treating with weed killers but at least keep the sidewalk clear of overgrowth. We have our own 10rentals & 2 personal houses I maintain myself yet I've never allowed overgrowth to impede public access to sidewalks.
    Good job on clover

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  4 місяці тому +1

      Yep, I let that go way too far just for the sake of this experiment. I won't do that again.

  • @darrenmcharg7731
    @darrenmcharg7731 4 місяці тому +3

    Why kill clover?

    • @ray6808
      @ray6808 2 місяці тому

      Most people don't like clovers in their nice green yard full of grass.

  • @terrykeith5206
    @terrykeith5206 5 місяців тому

    Question.....will prodiamine stop clover from emerging after winter?

    • @BeeTreeGuy
      @BeeTreeGuy 5 місяців тому

      I use prodiamine to prevent crab grass. It does absolutely nothing to clover.

  • @edhopkins6589
    @edhopkins6589 5 місяців тому

    Are you interested / in fear, of the damage to soil micro environment ?? ( i am very very interested, ty )

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  5 місяців тому +1

      I am actually concerned about that quite a bit. In my last house I used almost zero chemicals at all and this house I plan on switching back to a nearly 100% organic lawn again. Last year after we moved into this house I committed to transforming this lawn incrementally using chems and cultural practices to demonstrate to regular lawn owners how it can be done even in a place with a ton of invasive weeds and grasses, but in the long term I am itching to getting back to where my heart is. Keeping the soil and biology in the lawn healthy.

  • @resetgang6638
    @resetgang6638 5 місяців тому +2

    I sprayed creeping charlie in my lawn with T-Zone and it's dying but there's still a matrix of vines and roots everywhere choking out the grass. Should I pull them by hand or is there an easier way?

    • @garrettb72
      @garrettb72 5 місяців тому +1

      Might have hit it twice. Tough but not impossible. Took me twice in the fall for 2 consecutive years and it went away for a year. Then came back next year but very minimal. 1 more that fall and it hasn't been back.

    • @koolmaaan
      @koolmaaan 5 місяців тому +1

      Don’t pull creeping Charlie. Unless you pull out all the roots, which is virtually impossible, it will keep coming back. A few rounds of t-zone will really do the trick.

    • @BLEACH500
      @BLEACH500 3 місяці тому

      Use a dethatching rake

  • @jeffs70chevelle
    @jeffs70chevelle 4 місяці тому

    So does video mean FEHEDTA isn't a great long-term clover root killer? I saw your videos on iron but didn't try it myself.

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  4 місяці тому +1

      It's not a great long term killer unless you keep at it for a long while kinda like general maintenance. It will kill off newly sprouted clover when it's super young so over the long haul it will make a serious dent in the problem...it can also be applied at much cooler temperatures so your "season" for attacking the clover is much longer with FEHEDTA. Many people don't want to deal with it though so this video was to present the harshest quickest treatment...and even this one might even need a second application for the thickest patches because it's just hard to get great leaf coverage on layered clover hiding under the grass.

    • @jeffs70chevelle
      @jeffs70chevelle 4 місяці тому

      @@TurfMechanic have you experimented with adding surfactant or other uptake things like ammonium sulfate to FEHEDTA? I'm not sure if it would enhance the effect or just make it destroy the grass

  • @BenNawrath
    @BenNawrath 5 місяців тому

    That little one with the yellow flower looks more like oxalis, which is also tough to get.

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  5 місяців тому +1

      There's a bit of oxalis in there but burr clover looks a lot like it when it is very young. As you watch burr clover grow up the scratchy burrs start forming and the leaf shape adjusts a bit. In very young sprout stage though they look extremely similar.

    • @BenNawrath
      @BenNawrath 5 місяців тому +1

      @@TurfMechanic that’s cool. I’m in NY, it’s entirely possible we don’t have it. I just know a lot of people get pissed of when their clover killer doesn’t kill it…. Because it’s not clover haha.

  • @Anthony_The_Disney_Guy
    @Anthony_The_Disney_Guy 4 місяці тому +1

    Id hate to be your neighbor with that patch of clover

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  4 місяці тому +1

      You'd be surprised, I don't care at all what's on the neighbors side of the line. Just adds more interest to my own yard...and fun projects too. 😀

  • @TechWizMaster
    @TechWizMaster 3 місяці тому

    I think you should have trimmed the clover half this height...to reach more into the lower parts.

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  3 місяці тому +1

      I ended up ultimately trimming back the top layer (I let it get way to overgrown for this test) a few days after spraying and then eventually had to hit the lower canopy on a second pass. You are right, with it being so overgrown there was just so much clover undergrowth that was protected that it just never got sprayed.

  • @Moondoggy1941
    @Moondoggy1941 2 місяці тому

    18:48 That looks like Perslaine. I would not weed whack that.

  • @juzoli
    @juzoli 5 місяців тому +4

    I see the pattern.
    Next video: How to kill the grass, but not the weed

    • @juzoli
      @juzoli 5 місяців тому

      It is not a joke. I turned part of my lawn to wildflower garden. But it looks like I failed to kill the grass, and it is creeping back, suppressing many smaller flowers. I don’t want to restart it from scratch, just to kill the grass.

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  5 місяців тому +1

      Do you know what type of grass is coming back? That's a tough one without knowing what grass type you need to get rid of and what desirable garden plants you have growing. In my back garden area I'm hand pulling a lot of grass in stead of using herbicides. For bunch type grasses that might be your least offensive option although quite labor intensive.

  • @darrenmcharg7731
    @darrenmcharg7731 4 місяці тому +1

    Mono-culture lawns are boring and are like deserts for pollinators.

  • @Justsomedude64
    @Justsomedude64 4 місяці тому +1

    You should use an N95 mask not a surgical mask. N95s protect the wearer, surgical protects others from the wearer. In other words, N95s filter when you inhale, surgical filters when you exhale.

  • @floriswou
    @floriswou 5 місяців тому +9

    Why on earth do you want to get rid of clover? xD

    • @JohnnyArtoff
      @JohnnyArtoff 5 місяців тому +19

      Bc It’s a weed

    • @CH-kl9qd
      @CH-kl9qd 5 місяців тому +17

      It’s a hideous invasive weed? Absolute weirdo

    • @AlexKunstar
      @AlexKunstar 5 місяців тому +13

      I need my grass to be grass... not clover. That's why. Completely ruins the look of a nice lawn

    • @fartgod6983
      @fartgod6983 5 місяців тому +1

      Ugly and provides great coverage for insects and ticks.

    • @CrazyLinguiniLegs
      @CrazyLinguiniLegs 5 місяців тому +3

      I love clover, either by itself or mixed in with grass. Some people are OCD with lawn uniformity. But I love a mix of grass, clover, and dandelions. With a little fertilizer it looks nice. Often the reason some lawns with dandelions and clover look shabby is because the owners don’t ever fertilize.

  • @mychromebook9935
    @mychromebook9935 4 місяці тому

    4-leaf clovers bring good luck, by getting rid of them you bring bad luck. Leave a patch of clover and you will thank me later

  • @raynareid8095
    @raynareid8095 5 місяців тому +2

    Love your videos, but man you gotta spend less time talking about meaningless stuff. These videos are just too long.

    • @TurfMechanic
      @TurfMechanic  5 місяців тому +3

      sorry, but you can always watch on faster speed and I'm starting to publish shorter versions of all my videos on the Turf Mechanic Briefs channel. Keep that in mind while browsing. Will take me some time to get caught up over there on the shortened versions.

  • @richardsmith1161
    @richardsmith1161 5 місяців тому +3

    I bought the store bought Spectracide. It didn't do much for oxalis, but it sure killed the St Augustine in my Zoysia 😊

  • @Ouija_3200
    @Ouija_3200 29 днів тому

    My neighbor told me to use dawn dish soap salt and water. Just got done spraying it down right now. Slap me if I’m wrong.

  • @padroooo
    @padroooo 3 місяці тому

    Tryclopyr 4 is way underated. I used it to clear brush undergrowth and then on the lawn. It is my go to herbicide. It is deadly on thistle. I live in NW Indiana.
    Thanks for your informative video.

  • @philipmeeks776
    @philipmeeks776 5 місяців тому +1

    I'm sure I missed it, but how long will you wait after spraying will you attempt to reseed the area?