DIY Yards and Health

DIY Yards and Health
Helping the Do It Yourself home owner in making themselves and surroundings healthy

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Tempted to get started

msuturfweed.net
I am getting contacted from folks wanting to get started with Spring projects
such as fertilizing or preemergence weed control; even weed and feed.
It is surprisingly warm and we are seeing weeds break through near sidewalks and curbs where the cement is absorbing the heat and raising the ambient temperature in the nearby ground promoting some weed break through. However the temperatures are still freezing at night.
The problem with doing preemergence weed control now is that it only has a certain number of days it will work which means we won't have control long enough to go through the season. The other issue is most preemergence products need to be watered in.
The Answer is to get a small one gallon sprayer with a liquid preemergence and broad leaf selective weed control in it to just spray near the sidewalks and curbs where you are seeing the weeds break through.
 

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