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| I have determined that my lawn is being invaded by golden pea. Have used a weed'n'feed, but with no results. Can anyone tell me how to get this prairie groundcover out of my lawn in Northern California?
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Tue, Aug 16, 11 at 0:01
| First of all, never use weed n feed and expect good results. Some people are blessed with happy accidents but by and large, that product is not good at weeding or feeding. Have you tried something like Brush b Gone by Ortho? You might have to go to a feed store to find it. Spot spray individual plants with it. BBG might have a chance against it. I would start with that. Give that product 3-4 days to see if it works. If it seems to maybe work but not quite all the way to the finish, try spraying again. As a last resort with that product, try putting some in a baby food jar and dip a strand of the weed into it. Leave it like that for a week and see if anything happens. If that does not work, jump directly to RoundUp and try the baby food jar approach right away. Are you along the coast in NoCal? California is such a complex zonal location that it usually helps to know more specifically where you live. Also what kind of grass do you have and what kind of soil (sandy or clayey)? |
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| Thank you for your response. The lawn is about 5,000 sq ft and was here when I bought the property. Blade grass is about all I can tell you. The pea is not entirely covering the lawn, but making great inroads and, while I use round-up elsewhere, I'm hoping to find a solution that does not require re-seeding of the lawn. Base soil of the area is heavy clay (no idea how it was amended years ago when lawn was planted). Location is northern Sacramento Valley... summers can hit 115... winters have seen 13. Zone of area is on the cusp of zone 8/9 |
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Thu, Aug 18, 11 at 0:13
| Not all grass grows from seed. Some needs to be sodded. If you have the kind of grass that spreads easily, then you won't have to do anything but kill the weed. If you can take some close up pictures of the grass, especially if the grass has any seed heads on it, we can help you identify it. We can also help you figure out how to post them here...or you can look around for the messages detailing how to post pictures. If you already have RoundUp, try the method I suggested above. That method assumes you can pull a sprig out of the soil without uprooting it. The best result would be if the roots of that plant are interconnected. With some weeds all you have to do is kill one plant with RoundUp and entire sections of the weed die. I grew up in SoCal (Riverside) and worked for a moving company traveling all over the state. I consider the Northern Sacramento valley to be the northern part of Central California. You're still a day's drive away from Oregon. I always have to ask because so many people here say they are in NoCal but really live in the Bay area or your area. It matters because as soon as you get north of you, the preferred grasses change. You should be growing the same grasses as we grow down here in Texas. Move up to Redding and they should be growing the same grasses as in Michigan. |
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