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Fall Seeding brings Fall Weeding!"If
you build it, they will come"
Every year in October, Uncle gets those
same panicy phone calls.
"
Uncle, I followed your Fall Renovation Program™, I used your weed free grass seed. Why do I have weeds in my yard?" Uncle's immediate response is "Well, that's
okay, it really means you did it right."
When preparing your lawn for overseeding you are trying to open the
pathway for the seed to get to the soil. If the seed doesn't reach the soil, it won't grow. This is why Uncle recommends verticutting,
dethatching, aerating, or raking bare areas before you overseed. In this process, you are disturbing and turning the soil.
Anytime you disturb the soil (aerate, dethatch, verticut, or rake), you expose pre-existing weed seeds that lay
dormant in the soil. These weed seeds could be from last year or several years ago, suspended under the soil, too deep to
germinate, waiting for their opportunity to spring into life.
Most of these new weeds will be annual grassy weeds. The same types of seed that appreciate
the new fertilizer and additional watering from overseeding. Others, may be stimulated nutsedge nutlets, oxalis (clover),
or numerous other broadleaf weed types.
"Well Uncle, how do I get rid of them?"
Uncle's Plan:
- Don't panic, stay on course maintaining normal watering and fertilizing following
Uncle's Fall Renovation Program™.
- Annual grassy weeds (crabgrass,dallisgrass, or foxtail). Don't worry about these types. Grassy weeds will be slow to germinate as soil temperatures cool. Mother Nature will take
care of these at the first frost. Use PREVENT™ in Mid-April to eliminate their return.
- Broadleaf weeds (clover, dandelion,
chickweed, or spurge, etc...) Mow your new grass at 3 inches, when you have mowed your lawn 2-3 times then you can
control these weeds with an application of granular Loveland WEED & FEED™ or a liquid application of Gordon's SPEED ZONE®(can be applied down to
45 degrees with warm soils)
- Nut
sedge has the same waiting period as #3 using an application
of Uncle's Sledgehammer
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