When the forsythia blooms.
Herbicides used to fend off weeds
apply a Pre-emergent in the fall.
Herbicides used to fend off weeds
No, pre-emergent crabgrass control cannot be mixed with post-emergent weed control. The two herbicides in question have different application times and treatment schedules. No weed killers should be mixed together without specific reference to such a combination on the company's website or the product's label.
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Surflan is a pre-emergent herbicide and will not control emerged weeds. Round-up is a post-emergent herbicide and will not control weeds that have not emerged. The use of the two together controls weeds that are already present and weeds that have not yet emerged, at least for a period of time dependent upon the rate of application.
Digging up, mowing and mulching, and treating with herbicides are ways to kill chamberbitter weeds. The plants in question (Phyllanthus urinaria) can be dug up in the seedling stage and prevented by regular mowing and mulching. They respond to chemical treatments with pre-emergent and post-emergent weed-killers on the following basis:for lawns, pre-emergent atrazine in centipedegrass and St. Augustinegrass; isoxaben in bermudagrass, centipedegrass, St. Augustinegrass, tall fescue, zoysiagrass;for lawns, post-emergent atrazine in centipedegrass, St. Augustinegrass; dicamba, mecoprop, 2,4-D in tall bermudagrass, tall fescue, zoysiagrass as well as reduced rates in centipedegrass and St. Augustinegrass;for landscape beds, after greening-up in spring, glyphosate as a pre-emergent and -- but not among new plantings -- isoxaben as a post-emergent.
Pre-emergent and post-emergent herbicides are the types of weed killers that kill sandburs (Cenchrus spp), bunch-type, low-branching annuals and perennials of open fields and meadows and of drought-weakened turf. Pre-emergent herbicides that control crabgrass include the common names benefin, DCPA, oryzalin, oxadiazon, or simazine. Post-emergent weed killers range from the organic arsenicals DSMA or MSMA in bermudagrass lawns to imazaquin in warm-season grasses and Saint Augustine grass.
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Treating with a pre-emergent herbicide before topping the soil with sod is a way to eliminate weeds before laying a lawn. Selective and post-emergent herbicides may be applied once the sod is in place.
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