OT: Lawn/Lanscaping folks

[gasdawg]

I've got a good bit of henbit weeds and dandelions in my yard, particularly around the edges. I've been told to try a 2 4 D spray to eliminate them. My yard is primarily centipede grass and I definitely don't want anything to kill the actual grass. Y'all have any pointers or knowledge on the best 2 4 D product that won't harm my grass?

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

2 4 D will not harm any type of grass as long as you follow the rate

 

[civildawg88]

Just get the bottle of stuff at Lowe’s. It’s basically all the same if the ingredient is 24D

 

[AnotherOldDog]

Right now I've been using the Ferti-Lome Weed Free Zone on my centipede lawn. Getting good results I might add. The good thing about Weed Free Zone is once you apply it, you don't have to water it in. You can either spot spray or apply it with a hose end sprayer.

Don't know where you live. I buy mine at the Rankin County Coop. If you like shopping at Lakeland Yard and Garden in Flowood, they have it there.

 

[Mr Todd French]

Next year put out a good pre emerge before the henbit and early spring weeds come out.
2 4 d is fine on centipede. I would go to a co op. They usually sell the good stuff that has a higher % of the active ingredient in it than Lowes. For example round up super concentrate from Lowes has 19% glyphosate in quart that’s costs $25.00. I can get kilz all or eraser from the co op with 38% glyphosate for $58.00 for 2.5 gallons.
Look for the one with the higher % of dicambia which is the active ingredient in 24 d.

 

[moturfdog]

Mr French,
Please know your herbicides before posting! Dicamba is not a component of 2,4-D .Dimethylamine salt of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. This can be found in ester or amine formulations.
Dicamba is 3,6-dichloro-o-anisic acid. Be careful with Dicamba as it is becoming a hot button product in the ag market recently. Drift control is a problem for farmers who have not planted some of the newer Dicamba resistant soybeans and the neighbor has and subsequently used Dicamba in their weed control. Because of high volatility drift occurs and crops are damaged and law suits follow close behind.
Sorry for the hijack but Dicamba is hotter than 2,4-D and Centipede could be injured if products are mis applied!!!

 

[ababyatemydingo]

Next year put out a good pre emerge before the henbit and early spring weeds come out.

The henbit and other weeds in his yard that he is seeing now germinated back in the fall. Those weeds are controlled by the August/September pre-emerge application. Not by a late winter pre-emerge application, which is to control crab grass and other late spring / early summer weeds.

Also, dicambia is a no no.

 

[Negative Waves]

I have centipede and got a bottle of MSM at the Co-op. It knocked out most

of the weeds in my yard in one spray, and suppressed the Virginia Buttonweed. It cost around $20. If you get it, be careful when measuring. It only takes a little amount to do the job.

I've got a good bit of henbit weeds and dandelions in my yard, particularly around the edges. I've been told to try a 2 4 D spray to eliminate them. My yard is primarily centipede grass and I definitely don't want anything to kill the actual grass. Y'all have any pointers or knowledge on the best 2 4 D product that won't harm my grass?

 

[AnotherOldDog]

While we're on the subject of centipede lawn. Most customers at Lakeland Yard and Garden would come in at this time of year wanting some Feed and Weed for the lawn. We would tell them WEED now is good, but a big NO on the feed. You don't need to fertilize that yard until you have mowed it twice. You would be wasting your time and money. And, remember, that centipede won't start greening up until we have night time temperatures consistently 60 or more degrees.

 

[randystewart]

*disclaimer, not a professional: but I do have about 3 acres that I mow and spray as lawn. Some is centipede and some bermuda. On the centipede, I mix 2-4-D and Atrazine this time of year and that will knock just about everything out. On the bermuda I mix 2-4-D and Image (the normal kind not the kind with atrazine) and that knocks just about everything out. My big problem this time of year it the Poa, so I have to mix with the 2-4-D since it won't kill Poa.

 

[aTotal360]

Image is for the nutsedge, correct?

 

[randystewart]

Yes, but Image will also kill the poa (and several other things)

 

[Maroonandwhite]

Mr French,
Please know your herbicides before posting! Dicamba is not a component of 2,4-D .Dimethylamine salt of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. This can be found in ester or amine formulations.
Dicamba is 3,6-dichloro-o-anisic acid. Be careful with Dicamba as it is becoming a hot button product in the ag market recently. Drift control is a problem for farmers who have not planted some of the newer Dicamba resistant soybeans and the neighbor has and subsequently used Dicamba in their weed control. Because of high volatility drift occurs and crops are damaged and law suits follow close behind.
Sorry for the hijack but Dicamba is hotter than 2,4-D and Centipede could be injured if products are mis applied!!!

You are absolutely correct about Dicamba. Its application has been banned here in AR from April 16th through October. There are some very strict application rules as well. Even non-commercial use over here requires a license. It is highly volatile and moves around pretty freely. It's use/misuse led to a pair of neighboring farmers fighting to the point that one was murdered here a couple of years ago. There have been dozens if not hundreds of complaints and subsequent lawsuits filed over its use in the past several years. I know that no one is talking about large scale usage for lawn weeds; but, residential neighbors can get angrier than a farmer with crop damage.

 

[Junction John]

I use this:

 

[SignalToNoise]

I mix this in a hand can and spray weeds in my fescue lawn and have never had problems. Follow the rates and you should be good.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Compare...PIPHorizontal2_rr-_-202018917-_-203112354-_-N


Not sure if it helps but a neighbor told me to add a couple squirts of hand soap to the mixture as it would help it "stick" to the weed. Usually takes a few treatments a few days apart for me to knock it all out.

 

[ShrubDog]

Image will kill the Poa, dollarweed and wild garlics etc. I hate Poa.

This year I have a new invader. Vetch is taking over an isolated bed of juniper with one creepy myrtle with some spillover into the turf. I’ve never had it in my yard so I guess the birds dropped it will sitting in the tree.

Gives me an excuse to rip everything out now. Didn’t plan on it, always wanted too, but lacked motivation until now since its pissing me off.

 

[Dawgpoundrock21]

Celsius that is all you need

 

[HumpDawgy]

Just get some flubber......like the stuff we use at home plate.