Lawn Weeds
Grass weeds are the unsightly plague that infests your lawn with no remorse ruining the uniformity of your grass. They are thiefs of nutrients, water, and light. Your best defense is a proper lawn care maintenance program and some old fashion elbow grease. Common weed types include:
- broadleafs
- crabgrass
- sedges
Weed Control
The easiest way to get started with weed control is to raise up your lawn mower to its highest or next highest setting and start mowing more frequently. Taller grass helps prevent seed germination from weeds and mowing more often never allows weeds to produce seeds. These are some of the quickest organic or natural weed controls available. The long-term weed control program is improving the health of your lawn with proper lawn maintenance practices because weeds try to seek out and further destroy weak and bare lawns.
Identify Lawn Weeds
You can divide weeds into certain groups which fortunately can often be controlled with the same methods. One of the first steps of weed control is lawn weed identification because it takes you closer to becoming an effective weed killer. The two largest categories of weeds are perennial and annual weeds. Perennial weeds must have an effective life of several years and an annual weed germinates and dies within the same year.
If organic weed control is not a priority, you can explore the uses of a preemergence herbicide. Herbicides kill germinating seeds in the soil for several weeks. This prevents the weed from ever growing, but not all weeds fall prey to this method and require more clever weed control techniques.
Top Ten Lawn Weeds
According to David Mellor in The Lawn Bible the following are the top ten types of lawn weeds:
- Dandelions
- Crabgrass
- Quackgrass
- Annual Bluegrass
- White Clover
- Mouse Ear Chickweed
- Yellow Nutsedge
- Broadleaf Plantain
- Dallisgrass
- Curly Dock
