Plant Grass in the Fall and Do Spot Weed Control in the Spring

I start preparing out grass for the Spring in the late Fall of the previous year.   I over seed my lawn in September with starter fertilizer.   In addition, I put winter fertilizer down by October.   While I don't see any benefits immediately, I get an awesome lawn the next Spring.   At that time, I also do spot broad leaf weed control, making our lawn even more awesome.  I prefer spot weed control over using fertilizer with weed control since it is applied only to the weed and not to the entire lawn.

My neighbors sometimes ask me who does our lawn service since it looks so good.  I proudly tell them I do the lawn service, except for  mowing, myself.  I confess, I use a mowing service since it saves me about 3 hours a week for our yard.

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Controlling Lesser Celandine and Garlic Weeds

Lesser celandine is one of the toughest broadleaf weeds to eliminate, other than using glyphosate (commonly known as Roundup) which I don't like to use since eliminates desirable plants too.   Last year, I found a broadleaf weed killer (Bonide Brush Killer) that works on lesser celandine that does not damage the grass. Last year, it cut back some patches, but did not eliminate completely since I applied it late in the growth cycle.  I will be using it again this year, but earlier.

Bonide Brush Killer also did work well on completely eliminating garlic, which has been plaguing one area for many years, since no other weed killer worked without also killing the grass.

Disclosure:  I received no compensation from Bonide for writing this post.

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