Posted by wdoe999@yahoo.com on May 24, 2010, 1:48 am
I want to get-rid of dandelions from a lawn of a couple acres, and I
have been doing some reading.
There is a basic list of things to do, and one of them is to make a
healthy lawn but it is never explained whether this will get rid of
dandelions or does it only prevent them.
My questions is...can you take you dandelion filled lot and do all of
the lawn building activities (aerate, fertilize, over-seed, water,
etc) and end up getting rid of the dandelions, or is that impossible?
Do you have to go to the chemical warfare?
Posted by Bob F on May 24, 2010, 12:43 pm
wdoe999@yahoo.com wrote:
> I want to get-rid of dandelions from a lawn of a couple acres, and I
> have been doing some reading.
> There is a basic list of things to do, and one of them is to make a
> healthy lawn but it is never explained whether this will get rid of
> dandelions or does it only prevent them.
> My questions is...can you take you dandelion filled lot and do all of
> the lawn building activities (aerate, fertilize, over-seed, water,
> etc) and end up getting rid of the dandelions, or is that impossible?
> Do you have to go to the chemical warfare?
You can pull them. There are some excellent gadgets to help available. A
handheld sprayer with weed-b-gon or equivalent can make it easier with minimum
chemical usage by spraying only the weeds.
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/004389.php
Fertilizing and watering will not kill them in my experience, but you will get a
lot less new ones with a healthy lawn.
Posted by Frank on May 24, 2010, 12:49 pm
On 5/24/2010 1:48 AM, wdoe999@yahoo.com wrote:
> I want to get-rid of dandelions from a lawn of a couple acres, and I
> have been doing some reading.
> There is a basic list of things to do, and one of them is to make a
> healthy lawn but it is never explained whether this will get rid of
> dandelions or does it only prevent them.
> My questions is...can you take you dandelion filled lot and do all of
> the lawn building activities (aerate, fertilize, over-seed, water,
> etc) and end up getting rid of the dandelions, or is that impossible?
> Do you have to go to the chemical warfare?
I'm no expert but nobody's answering you, so I'd say no. Chemical or
physical removal IMHO is only thing that works. Look at something like
Scott's treatment which requires 4 applications a year and besides
fertilizer contains crabgrass premerg, broadleaf killers, and bug killers.
Personally, I do a weed and feed treatment with a product much cheaper
than Scotts and then only spot weeding with chemicals or physical
removal as necessary.
Posted by Frank on May 24, 2010, 1:02 pm
On 5/24/2010 12:49 PM, Frank wrote:
> On 5/24/2010 1:48 AM, wdoe999@yahoo.com wrote:
>> I want to get-rid of dandelions from a lawn of a couple acres, and I
>> have been doing some reading.
>> There is a basic list of things to do, and one of them is to make a
>> healthy lawn but it is never explained whether this will get rid of
>> dandelions or does it only prevent them.
>> My questions is...can you take you dandelion filled lot and do all of
>> the lawn building activities (aerate, fertilize, over-seed, water,
>> etc) and end up getting rid of the dandelions, or is that impossible?
>> Do you have to go to the chemical warfare?
> I'm no expert but nobody's answering you, so I'd say no. Chemical or
> physical removal IMHO is only thing that works. Look at something like
> Scott's treatment which requires 4 applications a year and besides
> fertilizer contains crabgrass premerg, broadleaf killers, and bug killers.
> Personally, I do a weed and feed treatment with a product much cheaper
> than Scotts and then only spot weeding with chemicals or physical
> removal as necessary.
Looks like I'm recommending Scott's but I'm not - just giving it as an
example of what I consider over kill. I believe in minimum use of
fertilizer and chemicals but use as necessary.
Posted by zxcvbob on May 24, 2010, 1:38 pm
wdoe999@yahoo.com wrote:
> I want to get-rid of dandelions from a lawn of a couple acres, and I
> have been doing some reading.
> There is a basic list of things to do, and one of them is to make a
> healthy lawn but it is never explained whether this will get rid of
> dandelions or does it only prevent them.
> My questions is...can you take you dandelion filled lot and do all of
> the lawn building activities (aerate, fertilize, over-seed, water,
> etc) and end up getting rid of the dandelions, or is that impossible?
> Do you have to go to the chemical warfare?
I spot-treat them and thistles with 2,4-d. "Weed-n-feed" fertilizers
just spread too many pounds of herbicide for me (the whole
neighborhood reeks when the ChemLawn truck comes around and sprays
half the yards) so I always have a *few* dandelions in my yard but I'm
OK with that.
I've been doing some research; triclopyr is much less toxic than
2,4-d, and it will kill resistant weeds like creeping charlie and
chickweed, so I may switch to that even though it's more expensive to
use. (it's the active ingredient in Ortho Brush-B-Gon and Garlon and
Crossbow herbicides)
Bob
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> have been doing some reading.
> There is a basic list of things to do, and one of them is to make a
> healthy lawn but it is never explained whether this will get rid of
> dandelions or does it only prevent them.
> My questions is...can you take you dandelion filled lot and do all of
> the lawn building activities (aerate, fertilize, over-seed, water,
> etc) and end up getting rid of the dandelions, or is that impossible?
> Do you have to go to the chemical warfare?