good weed spray for lawns?

Don-Wi · May 8, 2011

I noticed this year I've got an outstanding crop of pickers in my lawn, and I'd like to get them in check this year before my little guy will be out there too much yet. Got a lawn sprayer already to pull behind the lawn tractor.

What's a good spray to use?

Donovan from Wisconsin

KYfarm · May 8, 2011

I mixed up a mild batch of 2,4-D in a hand held sprayer and use it
around my house in the city and I don't really understand why more
people don't do that.

Of course you have to be careful of drift with flowers and bushes
around but if you can get it close to the ground and keep it where
you want it it will do just as good of a job on broadleaves around
the house as it does in hayfields

Coloken · May 8, 2011

I got tired of the spray in the stores with a mix of this and that and others. Didn't seem to work. I found a bottle of straight old 24D like I use to buy by the gallon on the farm. That I liked.

Mike (WA) · May 8, 2011

That's funny- Since I began my war on dandelions, I have had just the opposite experience. 2,4-D killed some, but about half just curled up for awhile then snapped out of it. I noticed I got a lot better kill when I used Ortho Weed-B-Gone. Looked at the label, and Ortho had something additional called Mecoprop. Ended up getting the house brand from Ace Hardware, much less money, and it has a little Dicamba as well as the other two ingredients.

Now if it would just stop raining so I could try it.

Cenexguy · May 8, 2011

Good Ole' 24-D Ester. works every time.

msb · May 8, 2011

Spraying them in the spring, only makes them mad. Spray them in the fall and KILL them DEAD! Only ones you may kill now will be what has come up from seed.

JDseller · May 8, 2011

I use a tank mix of 2-4D, crop oil, and Atrazine. You use 1/2 ounce of crop oil per gallon, 2% ratio of 2-4D example 48 ounces of mix would take 1 ounce of 2-4D, 1/2 % ratio of Atrazine. I just wet the grass/weeds. Don"t soak them. Too much does not work as well.

The Atrazine will help kill the current ones and will keep others from coming for a few years. Just don"t use too much it will kill grass at high rates.

VADAVE · May 8, 2011

I use Trimex with a kicker of 2-4D. Try mixing the Trimex a little strong and then throw in enough 2-4D so you can smell it and it does a pretty good job. I wind up doing it a couple of years to really get the weeds.

NawlensGator · May 8, 2011

I switched to Scotts 'weed and feed' grannuals several yrs ago and never looked back. That stuff works great.

Stuart · May 8, 2011

Forefront will smoke everything but grass. Makes 2,4-D look like water.

Gene Dotson · May 8, 2011

Triplet or Mec-amine. Both are mixes of 2-4-D and Banvel. Spray once in early spring to get the new weeds and again in September to stop the ones that will go to seed next spring. Banvel will drift in warm weather, but the 2-4-D reduces the drift considerably.

Gene

greenbeanman in Kansas · May 9, 2011

I see that you are apparently from Wisconsin. I'm from Kansas.

I'm 64 and still need educated at times, often from terminology used from one area to the next.

If you please, what are pickers? I've never heard the term used before.

Don-Wi · May 9, 2011

Anything that'll pick yer' feet. Basically thistles.

I surely don't want to feed the lawn, it grows enough as it is. Last year if I didn't cut it every 4-5 days it would leave a windrow I could just about pick up with the baler. Hopefully it'll be a touch drier this year so I don't have to cut it so often.

All I want to do is mainly kill the thistles so next year I can let my son who'll be 1 1/2-2 years old run barefoot and not step on them. This year he can't walk yet and when he can, he won't be in the yard much yet. All the other weeds while ugly, don't bother me nearly as bad and will be collateral damage.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Geo-TH,In · May 10, 2011

Just remember that what you put on your grass may get into your well! Read the instructions for 2-4 D..DON'T USE ON SANDY SOIL! Think about it...do weeds really look that bad?

Scott 730 · May 10, 2011

(quoted from post at 18:26:43 05/10/11)Read the instructions for 2-4 D..DON'T USE ON SANDY SOIL!

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