I’ve been using a weed tool remover to take them out by the roots. I just go out for maybe ten minutes here and there. It’s a long process but I wasn’t in any rush to get it done.
If you want them all gone immediately you could zap your entire lawn and just start over.
Agronomy_101
What grass you growing? It looks like zoysia, but I am pretty sure based on your location it is not haha.
I bought this janese gardening tool that I find very helpful for removing weeds like the latter in your picture. It is kind of like a sod knife and a trowel in one. I don’t know if I can post a url? I will try:
That appears to be Quack Grass. It’s a tough one to get rid of as it is a perennial meaning it won’t be susceptible to preemergents and no selective herbicides kill it. It also spreads via rhizomes so pulling isn’t effective.
I’ve heard tell of people “painting” glyphosate onto the leaves themselves to avoid hurting their surrounding lawn. But ultimately a non-selective herbicide will need to be used in some way to get rid of it.
Red-Rain-
Same shit is all over my new Scott’s sun+shade lawn in West Cle. I’ve got barnyard (thicker, onion ish bottom stem, roots and all – come out easy), Johnson (thinner, harder to pull the roots, stem is maybe 25-35% purple), and quack grass (looks like normal grass, just lighter tone, thinner and floppier), nutsedge and crabgrass. Sedge and crabgrass can be killed with normal sprays but the grass weeds gotta be pulled.
I’m gonna overseed + water late this month to crowd them out and then do a pre-emergent early spring next year. There’s really no post emergent for what we’ve got, except the kill-everything roundup
JustDrones
I spent a month (15 min a night) getting rid by hand. Now my grass is like professional 😂
Murky_Ad_9408
People round here call it nut grass and I don’t know how to get rid of it.
Ricka77_New
Hard to tell, but if it is Quackgrass, you have no recourse, other than a total kill/reno/reseed….or manually treating each one.
Pulling is semi-workable, but it’s not easy and if you leave part of the rhizome, it grows back.
Fusilade II will kill it all the way through the rhizome….but it also kills KBG and Rye, and will severely damage TTTF.
JC1515
Seems like that Scott guy sold us a bag of bullshit nationwide this year. Sun and shade mix was full of garbage.
Business_Door4860
Its nutsedge, you can buy a spray to apply to your lawn that will kill it in like a week.
Reggjooredit
Whar ever you use, forget about the leaf part, get some roundup and spray the roots, it’s more work, but better than just spraying the blades.
Galawn
Use sedgehammer. Best product on the market
Mattyj273
Maybe try tzone if you don’t mind chemicals
MnWisJDS
Pull it by hand is what I do!
ProcedureNo6946
My front lawn was gorgeous until this year. Between contaminated top soil and Scott’s 4 step with garbage in it… all my time and hard work…. screwed. Its upsetting.
Apart_Tutor8680
Get a “garbage picker upper tool” zip tie 2 pieces of sponge to each end. , soak the sponge in weed killer. And go around and pinch each blade of grass.
Chippyspyder
Someone needs to plant an entire lawn made of quack grass. Your lawn would be indestructible.
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I’ve been using a weed tool remover to take them out by the roots. I just go out for maybe ten minutes here and there. It’s a long process but I wasn’t in any rush to get it done.
If you want them all gone immediately you could zap your entire lawn and just start over.
What grass you growing? It looks like zoysia, but I am pretty sure based on your location it is not haha.
I bought this janese gardening tool that I find very helpful for removing weeds like the latter in your picture. It is kind of like a sod knife and a trowel in one. I don’t know if I can post a url? I will try:
[https://www.amazon.com/Original-Namibagata-Japanese-Stainless-7-25-Inch/dp/B0007WFG2I/ref=sr_1_6_pp?crid=1E1XT6VEXCC61&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bUD4YzSz4WVXF-9B5bPaimLQmER6Qit5EshfAZgxi2m86v2Q8lLKq9G3i-ViYOSYlCquyV_vItevlvgCtyS9BcXnZQ3yw-gt5Q_vFqINdNaq9ETeV5bUMC0p-6L0S3WKzTgMqm9QdbDvV3vd6unQ145NSN0_62qcxb-mu5XJHR29tAelJo26YpumFcDTzdSdR0XONVtqFNDk9LyefASLk7FzMANUOGWoA-Lk-ck5mm4NySZlw1wPRMjuNEroRTcOdK87qah3Bgjo0ow3XgJfERoX9ZCUV56uEFAOWTCd0TQ.EHVw5gKYbdO1AFjkzDVdy3SzjatjqmIZmtfAgYhNLfA&dib_tag=se&keywords=japanese+garden+tool&qid=1754834535&sprefix=japanese+garden+tool%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-6](https://www.amazon.com/Original-Namibagata-Japanese-Stainless-7-25-Inch/dp/B0007WFG2I/ref=sr_1_6_pp?crid=1E1XT6VEXCC61&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bUD4YzSz4WVXF-9B5bPaimLQmER6Qit5EshfAZgxi2m86v2Q8lLKq9G3i-ViYOSYlCquyV_vItevlvgCtyS9BcXnZQ3yw-gt5Q_vFqINdNaq9ETeV5bUMC0p-6L0S3WKzTgMqm9QdbDvV3vd6unQ145NSN0_62qcxb-mu5XJHR29tAelJo26YpumFcDTzdSdR0XONVtqFNDk9LyefASLk7FzMANUOGWoA-Lk-ck5mm4NySZlw1wPRMjuNEroRTcOdK87qah3Bgjo0ow3XgJfERoX9ZCUV56uEFAOWTCd0TQ.EHVw5gKYbdO1AFjkzDVdy3SzjatjqmIZmtfAgYhNLfA&dib_tag=se&keywords=japanese+garden+tool&qid=1754834535&sprefix=japanese+garden+tool%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-6)
That appears to be Quack Grass. It’s a tough one to get rid of as it is a perennial meaning it won’t be susceptible to preemergents and no selective herbicides kill it. It also spreads via rhizomes so pulling isn’t effective.
I’ve heard tell of people “painting” glyphosate onto the leaves themselves to avoid hurting their surrounding lawn. But ultimately a non-selective herbicide will need to be used in some way to get rid of it.
Same shit is all over my new Scott’s sun+shade lawn in West Cle. I’ve got barnyard (thicker, onion ish bottom stem, roots and all – come out easy), Johnson (thinner, harder to pull the roots, stem is maybe 25-35% purple), and quack grass (looks like normal grass, just lighter tone, thinner and floppier), nutsedge and crabgrass. Sedge and crabgrass can be killed with normal sprays but the grass weeds gotta be pulled.
I’m gonna overseed + water late this month to crowd them out and then do a pre-emergent early spring next year. There’s really no post emergent for what we’ve got, except the kill-everything roundup
I spent a month (15 min a night) getting rid by hand. Now my grass is like professional 😂
People round here call it nut grass and I don’t know how to get rid of it.
Hard to tell, but if it is Quackgrass, you have no recourse, other than a total kill/reno/reseed….or manually treating each one.
Pulling is semi-workable, but it’s not easy and if you leave part of the rhizome, it grows back.
Fusilade II will kill it all the way through the rhizome….but it also kills KBG and Rye, and will severely damage TTTF.
Seems like that Scott guy sold us a bag of bullshit nationwide this year. Sun and shade mix was full of garbage.
Its nutsedge, you can buy a spray to apply to your lawn that will kill it in like a week.
Whar ever you use, forget about the leaf part, get some roundup and spray the roots, it’s more work, but better than just spraying the blades.
Use sedgehammer. Best product on the market
Maybe try tzone if you don’t mind chemicals
Pull it by hand is what I do!
My front lawn was gorgeous until this year. Between contaminated top soil and Scott’s 4 step with garbage in it… all my time and hard work…. screwed. Its upsetting.
Get a “garbage picker upper tool” zip tie 2 pieces of sponge to each end. , soak the sponge in weed killer. And go around and pinch each blade of grass.
Someone needs to plant an entire lawn made of quack grass. Your lawn would be indestructible.