It is all the same "weed", 1st and 2nd photos. It is a fairly large patch but there is regular grass mixed in. The tall out of focus one in the 2nd photo is just a more mature plant that evaded the mower. The other stuff around it is much the same thing. This variety.. when the mower slices it, the seed will be seen right there in the cut stem in a short while after.
OT: Identify weed
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That's weird - reply to my PM with your email address and let's see if I can connect to you that way.
Believe me, I'm no perfectionist when it comes to my lawn. The only weeds I attempt to deal with are the ones that grow much faster than the grass, are different colors, or are flowering. As long as everything is the same length, I'm happy.
I'm with you. I seem to care more than many but my comment was an attempt to let people do/care or not depending on their priorities. Lots of people think I'm nuts for spending as much time as I do on my lawn but I actually enjoy it.
That's pretty much me. And I'll even accept flowering, depending on how it looks.
My problem is twofold. I have ****** soil. And my 110+ lb. German Shepherd tears the **** outta my backyard. She's constantly thundering after the squirrels that run along the back fence and in the course of a summer will turn any level of effort into something that looks like Churchill Downs.
When our Shepherd//Chow Chow mix died a couple of years ago, after 14 years of stomping the yard, our back yard lawn looked like a go cart track. Now it looks healthy again. We now have a Corgi/Dachshund ("Dorgi") that it much, much smaller. I don't even attempt to do anything about the weeds back there, since I'd rather not poison the dog.
Not for people who want just a GRASS lawn.Put Clover seed down on your lawn ,it grows and the wind takes its seeds over the whole neighborhood. When you see a mob gathering with torches,lock your doors.Had a genius of a neighbor who started to do this and was quickly dissuaded .
Fools! I am that genius neighbor! Give me 5 minutes w your neighbors, and you'll ALL be growing clover in your lawns. Not to mention healthy soil and a lot more $ in your pocket.
interesting stuff re: weight of dogs.. a couple 65 pound huskies would tear it up after a rain... but the 55 pound pair of huskitas (half akita half husy) seem to be more active in wrestling eachother and the lawn survives them better. Granted, most of the time they are jumping over eachother or fighting like bears on their back feet slapping eachother.. soo funny to watch.
I've tried on occasion, but it's thus far been impossible to get a video of her lying on the pool deck by the back door and catching a squirrel out of the corner of her eye. In an instant she's on her feet, full speed across the pool deck, off the back of it onto the lawn and barreling along the fence line with the dirt flying behind her. If you're actually standing on the lawn you can feel the ground shake.
I've tried - and failed - for eight years to convince her that she was never, ever, EVER going to catch one. Unfortunately her experiences with rabbits and chipmunks give her false confidence.
Like others have stated, the pictures are indeed annual bluegrass. It will tend to die out during the summer months but will germinate with all those seeds in the late fall, then reappear in the late winter early spring.
I would suggest applying either Dimension or Barricade in the early fall to prevent germination of the seeds.
Unfortunately my dogs have had success getting birds. silent killers. dang birds get too low in the arbor vitaes and one of the dogs will plunge in, go behind it and end up with a mouth full of bird every now and then. Rabbits and chipmunks too.. sad thing with a rabbit that, when they released it from their mouth they looked at it like they expected it to run away again so they could chase it again. Sorry boys, you killed your friend. A chipmunk tried to escape up a decorative plastic fence picket... next thing I know the rail is torn off the fence and a dog is running around the yard with it and the other dog chasing him... the chipmunk stayed put inside the picket and survived to be released. Squirrels have visited the yard a couple years back, but seem to steer clear now... occasionally I get the feeling that the dogs reacting and racing down the stairs might have been a squirrel.. but I have not seen one in the yard for years now.
Chipmunks... One day the dog "cornered" one in a downspout. It was perched about 3' up, and every time the dog would paw at the pipe it skittered around a bit.
After a few pokes she sat down to work it out. She'd slap at the pipe, listen for the chipmunk, wait a few seconds and do it again. After half a dozen rounds of this, she lunged at the downspout, snapped it in her jaws and crushed it - and the chipmunk.
And Acapulco Gold was actually New Brunswick Gold when my local contact sold us some weed, stems / it seemed like a lot of seeds.
MO
Oh, yeah. It was great. I had to cut in a new section of downspout and dispose of the old one, with the dead chipmunk inside it.
She figured out the rabbits real quick, too. She would see one in the back yard and give chase, only to have it duck under the fence in this one particular spot where there's a big enough space. She lost three or four of them that way. Then, I'm out back with her one morning and she sees a rabbit. She takes off after it, but didn't actually try to chase it down. Instead, she made a beeline for the gap under the fence. Poor rabbit didn't know what hit him.
Had a rabbit miss the gap in the gate in the fence and bounce off.. with 2 hounds doing a pincer move around the spa.. he was toast when he tried to reverse and get away. It was a stupid rabbit anyway.. was about 30 feet away from the dogs staring at him through a sturdy metal fence... was in the tomato garden.. when I show up to see why the dogs are agitated I could only see his silhouette against teh white fence.. he was standing up staring at us...
...then the thing freaks out and runs toward us.. through the fence then runs the length of the yard to the gate out... and misses it. While the dogs can chase it along the path it took.. they cannot fit side by side.. you got AC units and a deck to squeeze by.. most of the time they don't even chase each-other through that spot... so the rabbit should have gotten away... but he bounced off the gate and ran the opposite way... right into the jaws of death.
He was safe where he was.. he was safe in the other comer garden.. he could squeeze in under the deck.. though I did once find a rabbit cut in half under there.. that was unpleasant..don't know how that happened.. I'd think if a dog got him enough to cut him he'd have pulled him out and made a meal of him.. or a gift to me. One time out in the front yard during a walk.. one stuck he head in a bush and came out with a rabbit body.. no head. Not sure what that was.. maybe the lawn crew got one and just tossed it under a bush. Not cool. The neighbors yard seems to breed rabbits. In any case.. that rabbit was too dumb to live.
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Hi,
I just noticed this morning that I have a light green weed that is taking over my lawn.
its a light green weed that looks like crabgrass but it has like miniature cornstalks on them and they spread very aggressively. I have about 20 sqt feet of this and other parts of the lawn.
I was wondering if there is a weed killer than can knock this wee d out without killing the grass? I'd hate to use Roundup, and then seed again....
I took pictures of it, but I'm not sure how to upload them on this site.
thanks
This is not the thread I was looking for
It's funny- I just asked my fertilizer guy about the same thing, not seeing your picture at that time. Bac nails it- it's just your grass going to seed. And depending on your blend, different grasses to to seed at different times. Just leave it alone. Your lawn is healthy
Don't know why but your last sentence sounded in my head as the voice of one of the Forged in Fire guys saying"your knife will kill"