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I appreciate that compliment so much Chris! So many people want to be entertained but I'm all about education first - glad to know others care about the info too. :D
I was going to experiment with the ol' propane torch method this summer. I think you can zap the center of them and it might work. But I also bought some Tenacity for the first time. So, I'm looking forward to being the weed warrior this year.
Nice, I always thought it was awesome watching Allyn Hane torch weeds left and right in his vids a few years back. It's definitely an "organic" solution to weed management; no chemicals on the lawn.
I have to agree; in fact, so long as the lawn is a few houses down then they can have a ton of them and I'll enjoy looking at them from afar. :D In my lawn though, grrr
I’ve been using Tenacity for a few years now. What I’ve learned is if you want to buy it for post-emergent uses, just get something else. There are way better post-emergents available. It inhibits weeds but really doesn’t do a good job of killing them. So you end up with an injured, white weed hanging around in your yard. Tenacity is really best as a 3-4 week preemergent. I’m basically down to only using it when I aerate and overseed.
Yeah; I've read lots of similar comments from people that say that they have to use it 2-3 times to fully kill off certain tough weeds. Personally I've never applied it because I like to do things with as little chemical application as possible. I would rather hand dig out my thistle weeds than spray them down, lol. I got tough gloves. Truth be told, pushing grass growth with fert and mowing weeds down twice a week while never letting the weeds or dandelions go to seed does wonders for a lawn over a couple of years. I put down my regular grassy weed preventer in the early spring and then hand weed later in the year for everything mostly. It's good feel-good manual labor.
Hey Brian, I'm going to make a confession here: I already feel like I'm so far behind for the spring that I'm getting a guilt complex. Also, I WISH dandelions were my worst problem. Frankly it's kinda satisfying to mow over them.
If you kill a plant, does it not stop seeding? So, for instance, if I spray 2-4D and dicamba it kills the tap root in the lawn and stops the flowering. I can then use a preemergent (tenacity) in the fall with over-seeding and therefore have no weeds next summer. Or, explain why my reasoning is wrong.
So I spent last year spraying dandelions. If I apply granular dimension pre this year and then spray then ideally going ward I can control with just pre emergent? Thanks. Best vid on topic I’ve seen!
Thanks for your comments Steven! I'm sure you'll have a great lawn this year! Yeah, spraying actively growing dandelions paired with pre-emergent control will eliminate almost all of them over the course of a few seasons. Dandelion seeds will be viable in the ground for many years but most viability will be lost in the first 2-3 years.
Mail order programs like Sunday are definitely not worth it for value but for convenience they can be worth it for certain people. Some people don't want to pay a landscaping company to come out and spray the lawn but they also don't want to buy equipment and research what products to buy and apply either. This program I think is good for that cohort; package shows up at the door once every 2-4 months so you attach it to your hose and spray it until it's gone. Then never think about any of it again until the next shipment arrives. It's not what I choose to do to the bulk of my lawn but it's definitely not a bad service. Now having said that, there are a couple other lawn subscription services out there too. I have not used them to compare offerings (at least yet). Which other programs did you get better results from?