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GT98SVO
04-05-2008, 06:25 PM
http://us.share.geocities.com/jbinnig/pics/gardening/Picture.jpg

Taking over north side of my yard. It grows in clumps. It is some sort of grass. I have bermuda. I use MSMA, Scott's Weed and Feed, etc.

Much Thanks!
Sgt Beavis
04-05-2008, 06:37 PM
It sounds like Dallas Grass/Crab Grass but MSMA won't work unless the temperature remains above 80 degrees for several days in a row.
SSMAN
04-05-2008, 06:52 PM
No pic, just a red "x"
emg
04-05-2008, 06:57 PM
No pic, just a red "x"

x2
Duncan
04-05-2008, 09:12 PM
http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Others/others-161.gif
Sgt Beavis
04-05-2008, 09:47 PM
I was able to get the picture to load. I think Geocities doesn't let you host pictures like using that method...

Anyways, its just crab grass. Use MSMA when the temperature is consistantly 80 or higher and it will go away...

In the meantime put a pre-emergent herbicide down to keep it from spreading.
zemog
04-06-2008, 10:44 AM
or it could be rescue grass, cant see the pic but msma has no affect on this type of grass/weed.
Yellowstang
04-06-2008, 11:47 AM
If it is Dallis/crabgrass, I have a ton of it too. Just gotta either pull it up or wait till it warms up to use MSMA. I pulled a kitchen sized trash can full from the front yard, the back is is worse shape. I swear someone flew over Dallas/FTW amd spread seeds of that shit, it is EVERYWHERE!
8mpg
04-06-2008, 02:40 PM
http://www.weedalert.com/cgi-bin/weedalerts.cgi?region=so
mysticcobrakilla
04-06-2008, 02:58 PM
sounds like annual bluegrass, take a close look at a blade of this "grass". if it looks like the front of a boat you have annual bluegrass just like everyone else. MSMA will kill it when it warms up.
zemog
04-06-2008, 05:05 PM
if its annual bluegrass (poa anna)it will die by itself when temps reach consistant 85-90, no need to waste the money on spray.
mysticcobrakilla
04-06-2008, 08:45 PM
if its annual bluegrass (poa anna)it will die by itself when temps reach consistant 85-90, no need to waste the money on spray.
thats sort of true, by the time it gets hot the blue grass has already taken over
zemog
04-06-2008, 09:43 PM
yeah maybe , but out of the 1000's of lawns & landscapes and the golf course my company has taken care of since 93' i have never seen it yet. so to each his own
mikeb
04-07-2008, 12:23 AM
if its annual bluegrass (poa anna)it will die by itself when temps reach consistant 85-90, no need to waste the money on spray.

yep.
GT98SVO
04-07-2008, 09:39 AM
Well it seems to concentrate on the north side of the yard, between the houses.
It takes over a larger area every year. I started ripping it out, but it pulls up the dirt as well in a big clump.
I'll continue to pull up as I get up a gumption.
But will wait on the Green Light MSMA crabgrass killer until it is hotter.
Much Thanks!
That_Is_My_El_Camino
04-07-2008, 09:41 AM
Napalm. Problem solved. Thank me later.
mpulsive81
04-07-2008, 10:43 AM
Napalm. Problem solved. Thank me later.

i was thinking flame thrower.
Sgt Beavis
04-07-2008, 03:43 PM
i was thinking flame thrower.

A flame thrower might not kill the roots. Napalm has more ground penetration.

However if you really want to do the job right I suggest half a pound of C4 buried a couple feet below the ground. That should do the trick :)
Ylw 98~~SNAKE~~
04-13-2008, 09:07 AM
pour some gasoline on it
Yellowstang
04-13-2008, 09:14 AM
http://www.weedalert.com/cgi-bin/weedalerts.cgi?region=so


Are you serious, 3/4 of the people on this site won't understand WTF this means!

Barnyardgrass is a summer annual which has tillers which lie flat and form secondary roots resulting in a mat formation. The leaves of barnyardgrass are rolled in the bud and contain neither a ligule nor auricles; the sheath is open but compressed. The mid-vein is thick and keeled; roots are fibrous.

Barnyardgrass spreads by seed which germinate in late spring and early summer. The seedhead is a coarsely branched green to purplish panicle with spiked awns.
8mpg
04-13-2008, 05:50 PM
Are you serious, 3/4 of the people on this site won't understand WTF this means!

Barnyardgrass is a summer annual which has tillers which lie flat and form secondary roots resulting in a mat formation. The leaves of barnyardgrass are rolled in the bud and contain neither a ligule nor auricles; the sheath is open but compressed. The mid-vein is thick and keeled; roots are fibrous.

Barnyardgrass spreads by seed which germinate in late spring and early summer. The seedhead is a coarsely branched green to purplish panicle with spiked awns.

LOL... I think of it more like a picture book for the stangers :p Find your pretty weed in the pictures and check their recommended killer :D
GT98SVO
05-01-2008, 02:15 PM
It was Dallis grass.

The Scott's stuff, I got, finally kicked in. It took 3 weeks, instead of 1-2. Most of it is gone. I have been mowing as low as I can and bagging. The spots were the weed was thickest is brown and dead. The Bermuda is nice and green.

I'll continue bagging until it gets hot and spot spray with Spectracide and Green Light. The Scott's stuff didn't do crap on the ant piles, even though I bought the bug killer version.

Weed Alert is great. Thanks for the link. My folks contacted the guy that runs it with a weed that wasn't on his site, and he is going to add the information.

I pull as many weeds as I can.

Gonna throw Bermuda seed out where the Dallis stuff was bad.