A high-quality turf should be uniform. Weeds in the turf will grow with different size, color, leaf shapes, and growth habits. This will certainly disturb the turf’s uniformity.

‘Lawn Weeds’ thrive on the water, sunlight, and other mineral nutrients. In order to feed themselves with these basic elements weeds generally eat them up from the sources for turf grasses. As a result there occurs a deficiency of essential supplements in the turf grasses. This also affects optimum growth and general appearance of turf grasses in your lawns.

High quality turfs need high quality grass. Widespread splashy lawns, golf courses, athletic turfs, and other high quality lawns must be cared well for weeds. Weeds can cause serious distractions at such places. For instance the path of a golf ball could be diverted by weeds or athletes may get their attention disturbed.

Playgrounds like soccer and baseball usually have less cushioning grass and therefore have high probability of large weeds populations. These weeds when died become a major cause of injuries for players.

For convenience of your understanding Lawn Weeds can be divided in to two categories. On the basis of their emergence from seeds the lawn weeds could either be “Monocots” or “Dicots“.Monocots comes out with a single seed leaf and dicots do emerge with two seed leaves.

Monocots are also commonly known as the ‘weedy grasses’. These are normally found in turf grass. It belongs to ‘Gramineae’ family. Crabgrass, annual bluegrass, tall fescue, and quack grass are some of the common examples of monocots.

Dicots are better known as the ‘broadleaf weeds’. Some of the very commonly growing plants like dandelion, clover, ground ivy, knotweed, and plantain constitute the dicots.

A further classification of the ‘weedy grasses’ and ‘broadleaf weeds’ could be made in to sub-groups on the basis of the ‘plant life factor’. The ‘perennial weeds group’ includes plants with more than two years life span. Perennial weeds may be produced through new seeds every year. The ‘Biennial Weeds’ category of plants will have a life span of just two years.

The ‘Annual Weeds’ normally germinate from seeds, grow further, flower, and produce their own seeds within a life span of one year only. The summer annuals start germinating in the spring season and will mature during fall while the winter annuals will follow the same process in fall and late spring respectively.

You must understand that effective lawn weeds control is possible only when you are able to identify and classify the exact type of weeds present in your lawn. Correct identification therefore plays a vital role in effective control of lawn weeds. There is no single standard recipe, weeding technique, or lawn care tactic which can be applied uniformly for controlling all types of lawn weeds. It all depends on type of weeds and its targeted specific control mechanism.

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Lawn Weeds Question & Answers

Lawn Weeds Question: 1

I live in New Jersey and have a large weedy area in my lawn...is it okay to put down grass seed....?

....should I try and remove the weeds first and then sow the seeds (the weeds are very airy with long, thin blades that expose more dirt then they cover), or can I apply the seeds and deal with the weeds after the grass gets established? Any advice would be appreciated!

Answer: 1.
If you have exposed dirt, you can mow the weeds low and bag the clippings, run a rake over the area to de-thatch it and get the soil ready to take the seed, then overseed. The weeds sound like annuals, and if you can get the grass seed growing well, it will out-compete the annuals - but do remove any trees seedlings, dandilions, and clovers.
Answer: 2.
You need to get the weeds under control first, then plant the seed.
Answer: 3.
soft grass is very good for your lawn.
Answer: 4.
If you spray the area with "Roundup",this will get rid of weeds.Then after a couple of weeks,get the weeds out.Dig over the ground,and put about four handfuls of lawn seed per square yard(or metre).Don't do this on a windy day.Then water it and continuing watering for at least a day.After the lawn is established,you can get rid of any weeds,by putting a handful of ordinary salt on them.
Answer: 5.
If you use any spray killer, you run the risk of the residual "kill agent" messing with any grass you want to grow.

Pull what weeds you can, then work on planting the grass seed. Any fertilizer you feed the grass will also help the weeds, so make sure to pay attention and pull up any weeds you see coming. The best way to prevent weed growth is to choke them out with healthy grass.
Answer: 6.
Best to get rid of the weeds first. Clean the area up and rake it smooth. Then plant.

Pulling the weeds out by the root is best. Especially if you don't know what kind they are (I can't tell). There will be more weeds later anyway.

Get the grass growing well and the weeds won't be much trouble.

Lawn Weeds Question: 2

Inexperienced gardener?

I want to save money by maintaining my own lawn, but I don't know anything about gardening and lawn care. Basically the look I'm going for is well maintained, but simple. First things first, I NEED TO GET RID OF WEEDS! I'm not planting any flowers at the moment. There are several existing planters around the yard that were there before we moved in, but it looks like it's been a while since there were flowers in any of them. Should I dig up the weeds and them use a herbicide to keep them at bay? Also, one of the previous owners used pebbles and bricks in a decorative design for the walk ways and surrounding the large planter in the front yard. I like the concept and would like to restore their design to it's original charm, however weeds are growing up over and around the bricks and rocks in some places. How can I get rid of them and what should I do to help keep them from returning and growing so furiously.

Answer: 1.
If you use a weed killer in the planters you will have to wait 2 weeks or longer before you can plant any flowers. If you don't want to wait that long try turning the soil with a tiller or pitchfork and removing the weeds. You shouldn't have any problems using weed killer on the bricks and pavers just be cautious of the wind blowing the spray where you don't want it. If there is any chance that there are still flowers in the planters that you can't see because of all the weeds I would suggest the old method of just pulling the weeds.....just make sure it's a weed before you pull it. Once you get all the weeds out use landscape fabric or thick mulch to keep them at bay.

Lawn Weeds Question: 3

could anyone recomend a good lawn treatment to get rid of weeds and clover?

Answer: 1.
Slabs, thats what I did now got a nice large patio, and no need to mow the lawn.
Answer: 2.
Scotts 4 step plan
Answer: 3.
http://www.greenthumb.co.uk/index.html
These people will do your lawn for you.
Answer: 4.
Concrete!!!!!!
Answer: 5.
weed and feed is a good basic. the clover might not all die, home depot has stuff you can buy that is more targeted to that kind of weed though.
Answer: 6.
If you're restricted on use of chemicals like I am, you'll have to resort to good old elbow-grease and pull them by hand or with something like a Fiskars weeder.

Good Gardening!!!

The Muse

Edit: ... and do not compost them because you'll just end up breeding more weeds and clover.
Answer: 7.
Evergreen Complete for summer use kills weeds and clover and also feeds your lawn making it thick and green. It comes in granular form (don't know if it comes as a liquid) and can be applied using a spreader.

Lawn Weeds Question: 4

What do the numbers on weed and feed mean?

We noticed 28 3 3 on the weed and feed bags. The numbers went up to 30, what do they mean and is more better? The weeds listed were crab grass, quack grass, and creeping jenny, along with others. Apparently crab grass and quack grass are not the same? Also have what I have always known as creeping charlie, is creeping jenny the same thing? We have a lawn that was seriously neglected, a lot of weeds and somewhat sandy soil mix here. I am located in the midwest.

Answer: 1.
The numbers are referring to the ratio of N-P-K
Which is Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphorus.
All fertilizers have listings in that particular order to let you know how much of those elements are contained in it.

Lawn Weeds Question: 5

How do I get rid of dandelions?

I live in Kazakhstan ... which means I do not have access to the type of stores that are available in the US. I cannot find any weed killers, lawn fertalizers or such products over here and topsoil/compost is non existant. I have dandelions growing in my yard and have been digging them up and keeping the seed pods picked off, but as you all know, they keep returning. Has anyone heard of any household cleaning product (I can find plenty of that over here) that will kill dandelions?

Answer: 1.
I think if you try bleach or something that works it might be harder on the grass. I think you should keep pulling them up. Anything you can do to get the grass thicker will help snuff out the dandelions. With no fertilizer it's going to be hard. Make your own compost with the darn dandelions you pull up and anything organic you can find. When it decomposes throw that on the grass.
Answer: 2.
Pick them !