OT - Roundup

[greenbean.sixpack]

Since we have another week of near 80 degree temps, is it safe to spot treat (with roundup) those pesky winter weeds in bermuda, st augustine and centipede lawns? I'm assuming lawn grass is a dormant as it going to get?

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Yes. Just make sure it’s still dormant because I’ve actually seen some bermudagrass coming back out.

 

[Smoked Toag]

I wouldn't do that. I know people that say it's OK, and I guess the 'science' says it should work because the grass isn't technically absorbing things through the leaves at the moment, but it's just never seemed like a good thing to do, in my mind. If it gets bad enough, I'd just go out there and mow it to keep them under control.

 

[WrapItDog]

I guess the 'science' says it should work because the grass isn't technically absorbing things through the leaves at the moment, but it's just never seemed like a good thing to do, in my mind.

^^^ Science Denier**

 

[T-TownDawgg]

Goat denying:
Facts
Science
Evidence
Those with experience

Shocked.

 

[Smoked Toag]

^^^ Science Denier**

No doubt. And hey man, go to town with the Round Up if you want. It's just one of those "I wouldn't do that **** if I were you" sort of things in my mind.

 

[T-TownDawgg]

Just because it's "in your mind" makes it neither true nor good advice.

 

[Smoked Toag]

Just because it's "in your mind" makes it neither true nor good advice.

You seriously need to lighten up. You're going to have yourself a heart attack.

Even if I am dead wrong, it's never bad advice to tell someone to NOT round up their yard, unless they intend on killing it. He will at least have caution at that point. The only possible way he can truly 17 up his yard in this case, is to use a damn pesticide on it.

Believe THAT, *****.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

 

[T-TownDawgg]

The only possible way he can truly 17 up his yard in this case, is to use a damn pesticide on it.

Calling someone a ***** whilst saying this.

Please, continue.

This may get interesting, but give me something to hit. This is a softly lobbed beach ball, even for you.

Cheers, goat.

 

[Beretta.sixpack]

I feel the need to chime in on this one....

Since we have another week of near 80 degree temps, is it safe to spot treat (with roundup) those pesky winter weeds in bermuda, st augustine and centipede lawns? I'm assuming lawn grass is a dormant as it going to get?

Oddly enough, I started a new career this year in crop protection. PowerMax III (glyphosate) is one of our products....Even so, I still felt the need to ask our chemical specialist after reading this thread...as long as there is no green tissue in your bermuda, you will be fine....however, to be safe, wait until the next frost since these temps are so crazy. I am also in the same boat.

 

[Wizard.sixpack]

Geezus…the irony here is you told him to lighten up and then proceed to do the opposite site

 

[dawgoneyall]

Weeds??

Use 2-4-D

 

[ababyatemydingo]

Oddly enough, I started a new career this year in crop protection. PowerMax III (glyphosate) is one of our products....Even so, I still felt the need to ask our chemical specialist after reading this thread...as long as there is no green tissue in your bermuda, you will be fine....however, to be safe, wait until the next frost since these temps are so crazy. I am also in the same boat.

Honestly, it's probably fine for him to hit it with roundup. you have a hard time killing bermuda grass with one shot of roundup, if it is in the middle of the summer. you'd have to hit it with two or three rounds of a roundup and fusilade mix to kill it. probably three rounds of that mix.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

There are two things that could survive a nuclear blast, cockroaches and bermuda grass.

 

[Allday.sixpack]

Sort Of OT..
We are very vulnerable for winter kill just like in 1996 in our Bermuda turf grass with these warm winter temperatures. Winter is coming

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

There are two things that could survive a nuclear blast, cockroaches and bermuda grass.

Dem Urmy Worms sho put a hurtin' on that 'muda grass this past summer, in Madison ad Stakin' Rankin Counties.

 

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

We're about due for some winter kill....been a while. Summer of '96 was a fun one in the golf business.***

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

Sort Of OT..
We are very vulnerable for winter kill just like in 1996 in our Bermuda turf grass with these warm winter temperatures. Winter is coming

Uh, please expound on this!

 

[NTDawg]

I sprayed roundup on my yard one year when I thought that it was dormant but evidently it had green sprigs down low that I couldn’t see. I had a brown yard until the first of July but the Bermuda came back.

And right now I I have a lot green in my yard especially against the house and driveway.

 

[mcdawg22]

Oddly enough, I started a new career this year in crop protection. PowerMax III (glyphosate) is one of our products....Even so, I still felt the need to ask our chemical specialist after reading this thread...as long as there is no green tissue in your bermuda, you will be fine....however, to be safe, wait until the next frost since these temps are so crazy. I am also in the same boat.

I’m a little further south than some on this thread and I’m at the point where I’m going to spray MSMA this week. I have to get the Christmas decorations up to cut the front yard. It’s been a great Indian Summer.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

So do I

 

[Smoked Toag]

I sprayed roundup on my yard one year when I thought that it was dormant but evidently it had green sprigs down low that I couldn’t see. I had a brown yard until the first of July but the Bermuda came back.

And right now I I have a lot green in my yard especially against the house and driveway.

Shocking, I tell ya. But DCD and T-town say, "gOaTz".

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

If you go read my first reply (the first one you downvoted) I said make sure your yard hasn’t come out of dormancy.

 

[NTDawg]

Because of this tread I paid even more attention to my front yard as I was leaving this morning and it is wild how green my lawn is this late in the year. Not sure if it will stay way with temperature dropping to 29 Sunday and Monday night.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

There is a good bit of green left in my bermuda, but it is not actively growing. I minimally spot sprayed this PM.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

I wouldn't do that. I know people that say it's OK, and I guess the 'science' says it should work because the grass isn't technically absorbing things through the leaves at the moment, but it's just never seemed like a good thing to do, in my mind. If it gets bad enough, I'd just go out there and mow it to keep them under control.

I’ve done it every year for 10 years. Works like a charm.

one year I did it late and it got some of the emerging Bermuda. It only slightly delayed it coming out. If you manage to kill a Bermuda lawn, you were almost trying to.