(PNW) Zone 8b – new to me, neglected by previous owners – did a reseed of a separate section in the yard and it turned out nicely. Still have this eye sore in a different part of the yard.
Thoughts on if I should just nuke this lawn of weeds with glyphosate or try to salvage what little grass is there with a selective herbicide?
by APerfectLine
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The reseed I did in a different area was done by taking it to bare soil and starting over, wasn’t much there to begin with so was not that labor intensive. Just wondering if I’ll need to do restart here to. Thanks for feedback in advance!
Both options viable, what do you have the time and patients for?
As others have said, both options are viable.
Personally I prefer to not nuke if possible. I have respect for old grass that’s survived many seasons. I’d rather selectively kill off the weeds, keep the old grass, and overseed with new stuff. Adds more diversity to the lawn.
But I can see why nuking is satisfying to people.
I’d overseed it water grow mow and spray broadleafs out, enjoy your green lawn
I would try Crossbow before nuking it. The crossbow cleans should help clear SOME of the worst stuff and not make the soil completely toxic to anything you try to seed.
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Nuking has nothing to do with being satisfying like everyone else is saying, it depends what your timeline is. So im confused about all the responses your getting.
If you selectively spray this with weed killer you arent putting down seed until Fall and will have to deal with a even more patchy mud pit the next 4-5 months. You generally cant seed for a min of 30 days, generally 45-60 is appropriate after using broadleaf weed killers because for something like this you’ll be spraying near the max allowed.
Tenacity isnt fixing this.
On the other hand you could spray glyphosate, and put down seed the same day and have a lawn in a month(assuming temps are regularlly >60F where you are) and then do a broadleaf application to kill anything that grows back or doesnt die in late Spring or summer even if your climate allows it.
That said i’m in the Willamete valley and its still too early to be weed killing or planting seeds yet, generally thats around the first week of May historically when the soil temps are right.
Depends where you live. In my neck of the woods you nuke it in August and verticut it 2 weeks later. Overseed September 1st.