I don't know the name of it, but it's like that fine leafed grass like they use on golf courses. Started out as a small patch, about 2 feet square is now about 10 feet square. I don't like it .. what can I spray on it to kill it but not kill the mixture of St. Augustine and Centipede?
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Have the same problem under a bird feeder. To may knowledge nothing short of a flame thrower will kill it off. Weed killers don't get it, round up in many forms will stop it for a short time but it regrows fast.
If anyone has a good answer to this problem I would love to know.
http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200203874_200203874
Something like that and an afternoon to kill..
The picture is just one spot where it is .. it's elsewhere too by the brugmansias .. really hate that stuff .. I'm thinking it's going to be impossible to get rid of because it's mixed in with the other grasses (actually my lawn is the history museum of grass .. the previous owners apparently tried every grass known), at least it doesn't grow too fast .. but in about another 5 years it will probably overtake the whole lawn, I though surely it couldn't beat out St. Augustine which is mugging the centipede.
I was hoping there is some kind of pre-emergent stuff I can use on it once winter sets in and kills everything.
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Maybe I'll just spray charcoal lighter fluid on it and light it.
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I am guessing its bermuda? I have it for my lawn though I would have preferred another type of grass. It tends to eat anything it comes across. So far it ate my water meter and a popup emitter for my gutter. I put one of my potted trees on top of some it and it killed some of the bermuda though it looks like it may have tried to grow up into the pot!
The weed barrier stuff you can buy at the hardware store doesnt work either. My grass grew right through it. Very depressing...
Not if you're a golf course.
(imagining running after Core and flailing him with wet noodles and a tuna fish)
X, check with your County Extension office first, but I think that you can apply atrazine in late Nov. or December. This is an excert from Clemson Ext. regarding centipedegrass. If it is Bermuda, might not work.
Weed Control: Apply broadleaf herbicides as necessary for control of chickweed, henbit, and others. Centipedegrass is sensitive to certain herbicides, such as 2,4-D, so follow label directions for reducing rates and use with caution. Selected herbicides (e.g., atrazine or simazine) can be applied in November or December for control of annual bluegrass and several winter annual broadleaf weeds.
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Thanks .. I'll email my contact.
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Atrazine won't get bermuda but it does get some others that popped up in my yard.
I use a product called Ornamec that is specific for burmuda and won't hurt the centepede. I don't recall the active ingredient and I don't have the original bottle. You just need a little so I mixed up some to keep and donated the rest to some commun ity gardeners. You could always google it. I know there are other products that do the same but this one has worked well for me.
Torpedograss, nice. http://www.pbigordon.com/pdfs/OrnamecOTT-SL.pdf
I think they left out some plants .. lol .. wow .. guess I'll see if I can find some .. it's gonna warm up next week so it might slow it down and weaken it before the first frost hits .. then start again in the spring.
Thanks!
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I had to order mine online but you may have better luck in your area. You might call the extension office to find out the active ingredient that will take out the burmuda without hurting the centepede.
I'm willing to lost some centipede just to get this stuff outta here!
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most of our local golf courses used Bermuda. the birds and wind spread the seeds. basically it's the most invasive weed I have here. and it's NOT slow growing. so maybe you have something else? if it's Bermuda, not much of anything kills it.
I have zoysia planted here. it's slow growing, looks like golf course when cut, thick growing and I adore it. but Bermuda is invading and taking over.
Funny thing is the golf courses would rather not use Bermuda but it works out best in this area. They have had a few bent grass experiments around where I am and it always ends in failure. Centipede and St. Augustine can't take the foot traffic.
We have zoysia invading from our golf course nearby. Some lawns were also planted with it. Zoysia may be easier to remove. ??
zoysia I have, it's very expensive to start, and it's one of those summer grasses that goes a "lovely light tan" - yeah, right, yuck - in the winter. it's not easy to start from seeds, I'd heard, easy to start from sod or plugs.
it's not very fast growing, so if you cut it out, you should be ok. in my yard I cut it to make a flower bed, and after 9 months growing season, it had reclaimed less than 12". Bermuda could have reclaimed 4 feet or more in that same time.
Mine might be zoysia.
well, they say zoysia is very hardy. it has a different texture than Bermuda or fescue, about halfway between the two. I actually love it in the summer months, and under bare feet it feels awesome, like soft carpet! (I don't like tan grass in winter, though)
if it's fed and watered well, it grows very dense and thick, quite lush feeling. with this type of care, it's supposed to grow too thick for many weed problems. we don't do those things, and ours has been invaded by weeds. if yours is getting the fed and water, I'll bet it is encrouching slowly on your other grass lawn!
cutting it out does seem to remove it. I didn't have any come back in the flower beds, only on the edges when I didn't mulch it.
Glad I am not the only one who likes zoyzia. Burmuda is also known as wiregrass and sends out long wiry runners with fine blades. Like bonjon says, zoyzia also has fine blades but it is a tighter, thicker and denser turf. It would be unlikely you have zoyzia invading your lawn Deb. That stuff is expensive because it is such a slow grower. If you do have some - sell it! :-)
Alice:
Funny! I've been trying to replace it with St.Augustine & Centipede! LOL. The zoyzia (I thought it was zoysia - learning every day).. is nice grass but it has trouble competing with the weeds and it gets into the beds like crazy! I believe my entire front lawn is zoyzia. I'm not a lawn person, so I don't spend alot of time worrying about weed control and so forth. I like tough grass!
Having said all that, I can't afford to replace the whole front lawn so the zoyzia will stay!
St.Augustine is probably the most weed resistant but you can't do what my neighbor does and mow it a half inch high. What on earth is she thinking??? That sort of grass needs to be 3-4 inches high. St. Augustine needs to be thatched so that is a maintenance consider.
That was the problem I've been having with my mixture of centiped & st. augustine .. centipede like to be cut short .. so I mow in between.
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