Lawn care tasks to complete now
In many lawns, the winter weeds such as dandelions are green and lush. A contact herbicide can help control them.While it is not time to fertilize the lawn, there are other tasks you should do now for a better lawn, including aeration and top dressing.
Rent an aerator from one of the large box stores to create channels in the lawn from the surface into the root system. The idea is to penetrate the soil under the lawn so that oxygen can move into the soil through the penetrations and other waste gases can escape the lawn root area.
Aeration and top dressing is designed to make lawn grass grow better, but a second task that is well timed for now is designed to prevent certain plants from growing in the lawn and competing with the lawn grass. This involves the application of a preemergent herbicide to prevent the germination of two well-known and unwanted grassy weeds, sandburs and crabgrass. Both of these weeds are grass like and produce a new crop of seeds every summer.
The sandburs and crabgrass are summer weeds and have not begun to grow yet, but some weeds have. In many lawns, the winter weeds such as bedstraw, hen bit, rescuegrass, annual bluegrass, dandelions and thistles are green and lush. A contact herbicide can help control some of those weeds already in place. If grassy weeds are growing in your flower garden, you can kill then without hurting the flowers or shrubs by using a contact herbicide for grasses such as GrassBeGone.
Confer with your retail nursery and review the write-ups on the pesticide labels to help address your home weed situation.
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