What kind of weed is this?

#29
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Years ago when I was living in Chatt I had TruGreen treat my yard and next thing you know I had a lawn full of wild onions. The smell hit you when you walked outside. I wasn’t happy. They did eventually get rid of them though, and then I got rid of TruGreen.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I would guess Common Bermuda. The only way to get rid of it is to move.
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This is for real. I've been dealing with patches of bermuda grass in the backyard for years. Scott's is apparently not as annoying as Trugreen but I called them one day just to inquire about what they use for bermuda control and if they treat it with anything like Ornamec but hey said no, they try to choke it out with fescue.
 
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Coug said:
This is for real. I've been dealing with patches of bermuda grass in the backyard for years. Scott's is apparently not as annoying as Trugreen but I called them one day just to inquire about what they use for bermuda control and if they treat it with anything like Ornamec but hey said no, they try to choke it out with fescue.
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No way is fescue (in Tennessee) gonna choke out Bermuda.
 
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jp1 said:
No way is fescue (in Tennessee) gonna choke out Bermuda.
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Yeah, that's not happening.

Nut sedge is a pain. When you mow, you spread it. Image works. It will turn your yard yellow for a few weeks.
 
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Go aeiou said:
Are you using it on fescue? I was going to use it, but I think the lable says it will harm fescue. So will dismiss above 90 degrees.
It appears that the grass in the picture is a warm weather grass. Bermuda? Should work for him.
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I used on St. Augustine.
 
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One of the joys of not being in a neighborhood association is not having to gaf about what kind of green stuff is coming out of the ground. As long as it isn't tall enough to attract the health department, I don't care what happens out there.
 
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Coug said:
This is for real. I've been dealing with patches of bermuda grass in the backyard for years. Scott's is apparently not as annoying as Trugreen but I called them one day just to inquire about what they use for bermuda control and if they treat it with anything like Ornamec but hey said no, they try to choke it out with fescue.
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Ornamec works quite well, but you have to be diligent. I had success at my last house, but my new yard has so much mixed in with the fescue that I just accept that everything is green!
 
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With Bermuda in ET you can either roll with it (easiest choice) and overseed in the Fall to have a green yard all winter or Round up known Bermuda areas in late July/early August. Rake out what you can, then re-seed in early-mid Sept. Regular Round up needs at least 4 weeks before you can re-plant/seed. This method will take several years to get all of it, if you can ever get all of it.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
One of the joys of not being in a neighborhood association is not having to gaf about what kind of green stuff is coming out of the ground. As long as it isn't tall enough to attract the health department, I don't care what happens out there.
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I use to do the whole 9 yards on the lawn, adding tons of lime to get my ph right on nothing but red clay, pre-emergents, herbicides, fungicides, fertilizer, adding organic material, reseeding with the best turf type fescues, dethatching, aerating, etc. and I did it all myself. I had a little over an acre that I did all that to, and let the other acre down the hill do whatever it was going to do.

After a couple of really dry Summers, a lot of my yard died, to be replaced by weeds, and I said to hell with it. I mow whatever comes up. I decided that without irrigation, it was pointless, and I wasn't going to irrigate. We are also in a transition zone between cool weather grasses (like fescue) and warm weather grasses (like Bermuda and Zoysia) here in East Tennessee. You have to decide if you want your lawn to look nice in the hot months or in the cold months, unless you have water.

It is really hard to get fescue to germinate and live in such a small window of time. You sow it in the Spring, and it germinates, then dies in the Summer heat because it isn't well established. You sow it in the Fall, and if you are a little early, it gets dry in October and dies. You sow in late Fall, and it turns cold early and freezes it before it gets established. I also have never had luck with dormant seeding either. In my opinion , you need to get lucky with the rain and the temperatures to establish a nice fescue lawn, or you have to irrigate.
 
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Man I was hoping from the thread title this was going to he a completely different conversation.
 
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