Hey yo, so my yard is filled with these weeds I shall post pictures of below. Normally, I wouldn't care, especially since I rent, however I want to try to keep the grass mowed, but these things grow easily 3 times as fast as our grass (and the rest of the weeds in the yard).

I'd be interested in figuring out if there's a cheap yard treatments or spray I could put down to kill them and not the grass, but first I'd have to identify them. I've spent about an hour online looking around, and I didn't find anything that looked exactly like this. Thought maybe one of you guys might recognize it or at least give me some info to help narrow my search. Thanks.

5/2/2009 2:53:14 PM

looks like a dandelion variant to me

5/2/2009 2:55:14 PM

as far as herbicide applications all you need to know is that it is a broadleaf dicot

its a type of aster, but for your purposes it doesnt matter what as long as u can differentiate it from what you want to actually grow

5/2/2009 3:45:17 PM

that was the main thing... I know the leaves are "more broad" than the grass, but I didn't know if this counted as

BROAD

LEEF

WEADS

[Edited on May 2, 2009 at 3:50 PM. Reason : ]

5/2/2009 3:50:35 PM

ok its a dicot, grasses are monocots

general herbicides either kill one or the other and dicots are generally called "broad leaves"


thats all i was saying

there are broadleaved monocots (green briar)

just dont get a general use herbicide, since what u want to keep is already growing. Im not familiar with herbicide brands just the principle behind them

[Edited on May 2, 2009 at 4:05 PM. Reason : r]

5/2/2009 4:01:32 PM

weed n feed always worked for my folks

round up the whole yard and don't worry about cutting grass

5/2/2009 4:53:18 PM

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5/2/2009 5:49:25 PM

thanks for the info... im pretty sure 50% or more of my yard greenery is broad leaf stuff, so ill probably brown the fuck up out of my yard...

but at least i wont have to mow it every 5 days

[Edited on May 2, 2009 at 7:13 PM. Reason : i can spell]

5/2/2009 7:13:12 PM

Quote :

"BROAD LEEF LEAF WEADS WEEDS"

BEFORE you spray, what type of grass do you have? you have to make sure the heribcide won't murder your grass. C4, or summer grasses, like st. augustine, centipede, bermuda, and zoysia, will be killed by standard lawn safe herbicide.

does the grass creep/does it have runners? if so, it's more likely a summer grass. make sure you won't get any rain for the next few days when you spray. keep pets off til it's dry.

after spraying, put down a granular spreadable longterm type herbicide. read the packaging to find out when it is best to do this. make sure you water it in afterwards and keep pets off til it's dry.

[Edited on May 3, 2009 at 8:21 AM. Reason : ]

5/3/2009 8:20:29 AM

cool. I'm gonna go look at it, I have no idea what kind of grass I have, and I'm pretty sure the landlord didn't care enough know. Hell, I haven't seen him once since we moved in. There used to be a tenant who took really good care of the lawn and did a lot of landscaping and made it look very nice ( a neighbor told me). Apparently all it takes is a couple years of total neglect to go back into a weed-filled nothingness.

I'm serious when I say that 50-60% of the green on my lawn is either weeds, clover, or moss on the dead spots. It doesn't help that we have a ton of tree cover to discourage proper grass growth, and I imagine the massive amount of weeds compete for the resources as well. The thing is, if I spray, then I'm probably going to kill a lot of the other weeds, and perhaps even the grass too. I might just leave it, and grumble about it. These extra fast growing weeds I pictures in the original post though weren't here last year.

Meh... I might just go mow now. Consider it a little bit of exercise.

And also, I did spell leaf and weeds wrong on purpose Just... you know... don't want people thinking I'm a complete idiot. Just when it comes to lawn foliage.

5/3/2009 10:53:52 AM

dude, you're renting. don't spend money to improve his property.

5/3/2009 12:12:47 PM

^ haha, yeah. That's what I keep coming back to. the only reason i even considered it was because they grow obnoxiously high in a very short time... making me mow the grass way sooner than i would have to normally.

However, they're all at the bottom of the yard, not up near the street, so i can get away with letting them grow tall until the whole yard needs to be mowed I think

5/3/2009 1:01:53 PM

besides, they are flowers

5/3/2009 1:58:08 PM

theyre shitty flowers hah

theyre fuckin aphid motels

and tell me why in the third pic it looks like he gotta roach crawling around in his house

[Edited on May 3, 2009 at 2:41 PM. Reason : f]

5/3/2009 2:40:35 PM

haha, I think thats a husk or something from some insect. I was wondering that too. Anyway, all this was outside. I took the pictures against the hood of my car because it was too difficult to see the details without placing the plant against a different colored background.

5/3/2009 2:44:29 PM