Still no growth on the newly seeded bermuda yet (5 days). Right on the edge of my lawn on the pathway to the front door, I noticed (got stung) that some yellow jackets have taken up residence in some kind of ornamental grass/weed that the previous homeowner had taken a liking too, so I have two questions for you guys:

1. What are these weeds/grasses, is it spreading by the root system into the garden area?

2. How should I go about killing these yellow jackets that fly in and out of that hole in the first picture here (void towards center)?

Thanks!

Bottom pics are nutsedge. Don't both with RU on the nutsedge, get some SedgeHammer and be done with it. Pulling it only makes it multiply unless you get down to the roots and get ALL the nuts when you pull it.

You can buy wasp/stinging insect spray that will let you hit that hole while standing back 6 or 8 feet.

The other problem might be how extensive the network is underground... A few weeks ago I was trying to rake out the dead clumps of fescue in the vacinity and got swarmed by 3-5 of them, but got away with only a partial sting on my hand.

Liriope needs very little attention. It is mostly used as a border plant along sidewalks and flower beds. It spreads slowly and once ever 4 or 5 years, I might have the need to get a shovel and dig it out a little. That's only because I want it to look like a nice neat border instead of a ground cover.

I suppose that nutsedge could appear to be a very small liriope plant. It's just that the smallest liriope I've ever seen is in flats at the nursery. If it's in your lawn, I'm sure you are seeing nutsedge. I'm constantly fighting nutsedge. I can eradicate it from my property but it only takes one neighbor to let it go to seed and I'll have it again. SedgeHammer and Image are staples in my arsenal and I much prefer the SedgeHammer.

Several decades ago when my daughters were young, I found the wasps that live in tunnels under the ground. I was mowing and saw them coming out of the ground. Over the next several trips around the yard I realized I had to do something as at any given time in addition to my daughters, there were five or six additional children of the same age in the yard.

My solutions was to dump a quart of gasoline down the hole. After dumping the gas I finished the yard, and went back to check the hole. One wasp came out while standing there. The next step was obvious. I went into the garage and got a newspaper and folded it into a long match and light the hole. Fire came out of several other holes around the lawn. Fortunately none was near anything flammable. I did get rid of the wasp, but have wondered ever since, what I would have told the insurance company it I have not been so lucky.

Locate the nest entrance and hit it with a Wasp-Hornet spray. The Wasp Hornet sprays are pretty safe in general as the better ones use Pyrethrin a organic herbicide made from Daisies. Go to WallMart and buy a can of Spectracide Commercial Wasp and Hornet Spray.

Last night I tried emptying a bottle of wasp spray in the hole, pissed them off royally. Luckily I got away with no stings. They were hovering around the hole for a while afterwards though. I'll try another one today!

You should not have to get real close. Try this. Do it right at dusk or just after dark when all the wasp are in the nest for the night. They will not be able to escape, and you will kill all of them.

Regarding the nutsedge, I got curious what the nuts were so I started ripping up some of them, finally I found these dark brown spheres that look like the ones found here: http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=6317

Nutsedge!