OT: help needed for clover and wild onion control

[ToxicTimberDawg]

Grass is still dormant. Mostly centipede and Bermuda mixed with pasture grass / weeds. Wild onions and clover (light purple blooms) are in full force. Clover is slow cutting in April/May before it dies out so I want to kill it before mower season. Is now a good time to spray them (after the snow/ice events) and what should I use. ? I have a boomless sprayer that goes on the four wheeler. Thanks for any help !

 

[ababyatemydingo]

what you're calling clover is more than likely henbit. you have to control that by spraying a pre-emergent in the fall. before it germinates. you can spray it with 2,4-D now to kill it. the wild onion, wild garlic, star of Bethlehem are tough to control. same family. they grows from bulbs and bulblets. the best way to know you've gotten rid of it is to dig up the bulbs and get rid of them. couple of herbicides i've used with varying success. imazaquin (image) works good, but don't spray it if your lawn is greening up. will damage lawn if sprayed during that phase. i've also used msm turf with good success, and you can spray that now. if you have bermuda and it's still fully dormant, you can use round up. mix a sticker in with whatever you spray. onions, etc have a waxy coating on them.

 

[ZombieKissinger]

For the wild onion, I usually pour some beef stock on the yard then sprinkle in toasted bread and mozzarella. This will produce a good French onion soup. In the summer, the sun will cook it thoroughly but this time of year I usually get a heat lamp and cook the yard in sections. Once it’s ready, I unleash the mole crickets, who gorge themselves, eating the soup (and all the onions). The crickets often die of diabetes or strokes within a few weeks (depends on your cheese to bread crumb ratio), but if any are left over, I usually just put some armadillos on leashes and police the yard until they’re all gone.

 

[dawgman42]

Adding Dales and Italian Dressing will halve the process.

 

[ZombieKissinger]

Thanks, yes, please only use the method I described if you already have armadillos

 

[Dawgbite]

I hit my entire yard with Round Up Tuesday. The hen bit has ruined my yard over the past couple of years so I don’t have much to lose at this point.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Roundup isn’t really effective against henbit.

 

[Dawgbite]

Roundup isn’t really effective against henbit.

What is?

 

[ToxicTimberDawg]

what you're calling clover is more than likely henbit. you have to control that by spraying a pre-emergent in the fall. before it germinates. you can spray it with 2,4-D now to kill it. the wild onion, wild garlic, star of Bethlehem are tough to control. same family. they grows from bulbs and bulblets. the best way to know you've gotten rid of it is to dig up the bulbs and get rid of them. couple of herbicides i've used with varying success. imazaquin (image) works good, but don't spray it if your lawn is greening up. will damage lawn if sprayed during that phase. i've also used msm turf with good success, and you can spray that now. if you have bermuda and it's still fully dormant, you can use round up. mix a sticker in with whatever you spray. onions, etc have a waxy coating on them.

I definitely have lots of clover but I googled and you are exactly right about henbit. I have lots of it too. The onions don't bother me so much because they are easy to cut. Thanks for the info !

 

[mcdawg22]

Roundup isn’t really effective against henbit.

MSMA okay right now? Bermuda is dormant with the tops showing a little green down here.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

2,4-D or dicamba.

 

[jdbulldog]

I just cut whatever comes up. When fresh cut it looks great....all green and pretty.

 

[G-Dawg]

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What is this? It looks like some kind of fungus. It's ALL over the side of my yard and partially now in the backyard. It just so happens that this area stays the wettest. I sprayed Image and 2,4-D a few months ago to kill some broadleaf weeds. What should I do to get rid of it?

It looks like wet tobacco that bubbles up.

 

[moturfdog]

 

[moturfdog]

Sorry previous post didn’t work
You have a Cyanobacteria called Nostoc. Dry the area with drainage and topdressing with sand to improve moving the moisture out of the area. Fungicides that are labeled for algae and moss will aid in drying theNostoc bloom. During dry periods use cultural practices such as aggressively rake to break up the crust left by the Nostoc bloom

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

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What is this? It looks like some kind of fungus. It's ALL over the side of my yard and partially now in the backyard. It just so happens that this area stays the wettest. I sprayed Image and 2,4-D a few months ago to kill some broadleaf weeds. What should I do to get rid of it?

It looks like wet tobacco that bubbles up.

Dog ate a box of examination gloves.