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What's this and how do I kill it?????

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It's called Poa Annua or Annual Bluegrass. Yes it's a weed. No the stuff you buy at the hardware store will not kill it. Well maybe some stuff called "Image" if you can find it. You need a professional company with the proper herbicides.

But the good news is that once we get into summer it will die. It does not like dry and hot conditions. It's just an annual weed that pops up in the spring and sometimes fall. If you don't have too much of it just pull it up by hand or you can put a little round up right on each clump careful not to over spray the surrounding desired grass.

Just re-read the OP. Do Not Use Roud Up. It will destroy your centipede. Looks like Home Depot or Lowes carries this. This is what you need
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10cc said:
It's called Poa Annua or Annual Bluegrass. Yes it's a weed. No the stuff you buy at the hardware store will not kill it. Well maybe some stuff called "Image" if you can find it. You need a professional company with the proper herbicides.

But the good news is that once we get into summer it will die. It does not like dry and hot conditions. It's just an annual weed that pops up in the spring and sometimes fall. If you don't have too much of it just pull it up by hand or you can put a little round up right on each clump careful not to over spray the surrounding desired grass.

Just re-read the OP. Do Not Use Roud Up. It will destroy your centipede. Looks like Home Depot or Lowes carries this. This is what you need
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Sweet! I'll pursue the local advisors as suggested and look into this option as well. Thanks much!
 
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two fingers said:
.... I forgot to mention that my yard is about 5 acres. 1 is woods and the rest grass. If I had to guess, I would say I'm up to about 1.5 acres of the stuff at this point. Maybe if I had a mule to help pull the tiller....
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I'm thinking goats. If you have a herd of goats, that stuff won't stand a chance. Plus, you will have goats. A herd of goats is something that everyone should experience at least once.
 
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Gaolee said:
I'm thinking goats. If you have a herd of goats, that stuff won't stand a chance. Plus, you will have goats. A herd of goats is something that everyone should experience at least once.
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What's funny is that I am seriously considering that for the back acre or so of woods. I have heard they can eat briars and everything.

The problem here is that this stuff is in patches all over the yard, and I imagine anything that eats soda cans won't have a problem devouring my actual grass....which I would like to keep. I am honestly considering reseeding the whole property with something easier to care for than centipede and also chokes out weeds better.
 
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two fingers said:
What's funny is that I am seriously considering that for the back acre or so of woods. I have heard they can eat briars and everything.

The problem here is that this stuff is in patches all over the yard, and I imagine anything that eats soda cans won't have a problem devouring my actual grass....which I would like to keep. I am honestly considering reseeding the whole property with something easier to care for than centipede and also chokes out weeds better.
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Goats do indeed eat briars. There are people around here who rent out herds of goats for land clearing purposes. They had a herd of goats on an odd hillside/traffic median in an intensely urban part of Seattle recently. The goats did a fine job of clearing the brush from the area without destroying trees or pavement. As I recall, the fence is still up, so the goats may be a repeated thing. I hope so. I like goats. If we had room for goats, I would consider having a goat around, just for the orneriness of it.
 
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Hi, I was interested in this, so I asked my friend the horticulturist. He could not exactly tell what it was from the,photo, but he had some thoughts:

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Couldn't tell from the photo, (blew it up as far as I could!) --- as to how tall it is, but seems to be one of the 'rogue's gallery' of weedy grasses; if it's really short, (like 2-3 in.), it could be Poa annua --- (an annual cousin of blue grass), it never gets very tall, & displaces everything! Here's the trick w/ this one --- it makes those little seed heads early in the season, & then dies, leaving roundish dead patches & spreading seed --- which germinates in the Fall & overwinters, so it's 'ready to rumble', by the time Spring rolls around again ...
The reason Weed-B-Gon doesn't work on it is because it's designed Not To Harm Grasses(!) --- only works on broadleaved (Dicot), plants & weeds, so it doesn't kill the lawn ---- the best treatment is to apply Crabgrass preventer, (ie Pendimethelin -- (sp.?) to the entire affected area in late Summer/early Fall --- usually early-mid Sept. in our neck of the woods, earlier in the Carolina's, I'm sure ...


There is one other point to make --- just in case it's another type of grass (hard to tell from the photo --- sorry), crabgrass preventer won't work on every single type of grass, & not all grasses sprout in the Fall, so I'd reapply in early Spring. Also, there is another product called Grass-B-Gon, that can be applied anytime ---but aim carefully --- will kill all types of grass! Hope this helps ..."
 
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Radio said:
Hi, I was interested in this, so I asked my friend the horticulturist. He could not exactly tell what it was from the,photo, but he had some thoughts:

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Couldn't tell from the photo, (blew it up as far as I could!) --- as to how tall it is, but seems to be one of the 'rogue's gallery' of weedy grasses; if it's really short, (like 2-3 in.), it could be Poa annua --- (an annual cousin of blue grass), it never gets very tall, & displaces everything! Here's the trick w/ this one --- it makes those little seed heads early in the season, & then dies, leaving roundish dead patches & spreading seed --- which germinates in the Fall & overwinters, so it's 'ready to rumble', by the time Spring rolls around again ...
The reason Weed-B-Gon doesn't work on it is because it's designed Not To Harm Grasses(!) --- only works on broadleaved (Dicot), plants & weeds, so it doesn't kill the lawn ---- the best treatment is to apply Crabgrass preventer, (ie Pendimethelin -- (sp.?) to the entire affected area in late Summer/early Fall --- usually early-mid Sept. in our neck of the woods, earlier in the Carolina's, I'm sure ...


There is one other point to make --- just in case it's another type of grass (hard to tell from the photo --- sorry), crabgrass preventer won't work on every single type of grass, & not all grasses sprout in the Fall, so I'd reapply in early Spring. Also, there is another product called Grass-B-Gon, that can be applied anytime ---but aim carefully --- will kill all types of grass! Hope this helps ..."
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It does. Thanks!

This stuff tops out at about 4" maybe. Yes, it gets those little seed pod ....... things. And then it goes away when the real heat gets here (or at least it has in the past....when there was less of it). And it does come back when the cold returns. Although it stays kind of thin during the cold weather and then thickens up in Spring, before kind of dying out in the hottest Summer time.
 

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