Can You Still Buy Lawn Weed Control Without Fertilizer?

If you have a farmer friend, get him to pick you up some herbicide for you. The stuff they sell "for lawns" and to non farmers, is so stinking expensive, often diluted to the point of non-effectiveness, and they simply have such a limited array of different families and herbicide groups and choices.

Lots of the rangeland herbicides work excellent on lawns, and a jug will last a homeowner YEARS and YEARS, and will not cost nearly so much as the garden store junk.

Grasses crowd out broadleaves -if- your soil is set up healthy for grasses.

You need a good ph (lime to get up to 6.5ph or so, tough luck if you have naturally high ph over 7....) and good nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium levels.

Then mow the grasses regularly (30 days or less between mowings) and that favors grasses, and stresses broadleaves.

If you are unwilling to fertilize, or lime if needed, your problem will always be there.... You don't, shouldn't, fertilize to excess, but just to levels to make a healthy grass crop.

To get the weeds under control, there are many weed controls out there that kill broadleaves and don't harm grasses. Most of them are brand names of the same old farm chemicals we use on corn crops for generations now. 24D, dicamba, and others.

For creeping Charlie, look on the label of active ingredients 'dicamba' is the one that kills them. It is in Trimec, and the part that is most effective on creeping C, as well as on many broadleaf weeds.

I would rescue your current lawn with lime if needed, fertilizer to a low but needed level, and broadleaf spray to knock back the broadleaves.

In that order.

Your lawn should recover much faster than killing it off and trying to start with fresh dirt, I would not do that.

Paul

Yes the one I pictured has 8% 2-4-D as the first ingredient. And with the easy of connecting to a hose and spraying it out for an average lean it works great. Took care of all sorts of weeds in my lawn and a friends lawn when he found out about the product and used it also.

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