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Posted by Data on May 7, 2007, 4:04 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > John61 wrote:
> > Please see the picture here
> >http://www.picsoup.com/v.php?id=22339IMG_Grass.JPG
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> > The weed has been spreading in my yard quickly. I used a general weed
> > control liquid bought from Wal-Mart last year, but seems not working.
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> > What kind of weed is this? Do we have to use something special to handle it?
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> > Thanks,
>
> > John
>
> Very hard to tell from the picture, but it looks a lot like perennial
> rye grass. A neighbor planted some a few years ago to have a green
> lawn over winter. Now it's spread over the whole neighborhood & I've
> been fighting it all spring. Broadleaf weed killer doesn't phase it.
> Thank goodness it's shallow rooted so it can be pulled up by hand.
>
> Red
Hi
It's not Perennial Rye grass - which is distinguished by having a very
shiny surface - amongst other things. (Looks a bit like a
'Holcus' (Yorkshire Fog her in the UK :-) )
If there is not toooooo much of it about, a neat little trick is to
bunch up the weed gradd into a tube - dpending upon the size of the
clump, then spray Roundup (Glyphosate) down the tube onto the weed
grass. Sure. a little will probably find its way onto surrounding
grasses, but nothing that some overseeding can't sort out. Otherwise,
just bunch it up and cut it down into the guts of the root system. You
may then find that it is not quite the massive job to dig out the
root.
Hope this helps
Regard
Data
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