Beginner Gardening: crabgrass, 1 by KaylyRed

KaylyRed wrote:
I posted about crabrass in the invasives forum but haven't heard back from anyone. This stuff is awful. Our yard had been pretty untended for years when we moved in here. Plus we have a field full of noxious weeds next door (new construction, and now the house is vacant and they never landscaped), and the farmer across the street seems to always let his field go to weeds in the spring before plowing it under. So crabrass is a major fight for me, as well.

I don't remember my crabgrass having wirey runners, though. It spreads out in a big round, flat, blob and goes to seed. I think there's a different variety that spreads by runners, though.

Here's what my crabgrass looks like (I didn't take this picture, though).