NUTSEDGE

It’s coming, it will be here soon. If you are south you will see it first. North will be a little later, I’m guessing sometime in middle of may from around me. Zone 5b. Weeds have been little early this year. You’ll see this before crabgrass(another fun one) See lots of posts on this. Thought maybe this could help someone.

It’s a lime green color(there isn’t a whole lot that resembles it, in a normal yard.and it comes out of nowhere. It will also grow faster than anything else in the turf, after a mow it’s right back to being taller then the rest of the grass.

There’s a professor that’s always at turf shows, and he has a saying that has stuck with me over the years. SEDGES HAVE EDGES, remember this when you pick a single blade and roll it within your fingers. They have 3 edges vs a standard 2 like a blade of grass.

Treatment. Once you notice it, mow the lawn. Wait a couple days to let the nutsedge show itself. Walk with the sun to your back and it will help highlight the blade.

People seem to like sedgehamer, personally never used it, been using prosedge for years and it clears it right up, usually in one application, but sometimes takes a couple years to get it all. Depends how bad you got it.

Pulling it has no effect. Might even propagate it faster. You would have dig a foot into the soil to find its actual nut. And there’s usually a bunch of them.

I’m not the nutsedge expert. There’s many ways of doing things, this method has worked extremely well for me over the years. We do a weed I’d at work on Fridays and this is my presentation to the group.