Lawn Weed Control, Marietta, Roswell, Woodstock, Kennesaw, GA

Lawn Weed Problems

In identifying a pest problem in relation to weeds, which is a plant known to be a wild plant growing where it is not wanted, starts with identification of the weed pest problem, choosing a proper weed treatment and preventive control solution and application of the treatment for the host plant and the overall environment.

Most annual weeds are controlled through the means of pre-emergence chemical but for those more difficult weed pest problems we have to go further and sometimes it takes a more costly and time-consuming approach to control those non-annual weed pest. Below are some of weeds pest we encounter in the southern lawn and their characteristics.

Annual Weeds

The most common weeds in the lawn are annual weeds which reproduce each year from seeds of plants from the previous season, making them seasonal annuals, in their season of the yearly cycle. Annual weeds consist of both grassy and broadleaf, and grow in almost every season of the year. Most species are fairly easy to control through a Green Care preventive lawn pre-emergence weed control program

Bi-Annual Weeds

The bi-annual (example: dandelion) means that is has a life cycle of two years before it finally dies, after it has littered the lawn soil with seeds to continue the process in the following year to start the two year cycle all over again. They could be seen by some as annual but, the fact they only produce seed in the second year makes them a Bi-annual weed pest.

Perennial Weeds

Perennial weeds perhaps, the worst of them all. They can live almost indefinitely, either as broadleaf or grassy weeds. Even though their foliage and stems dye off as frost sets in winter. Most are summer weeds that produce seeds as well as healthy root and/or tubular that can survive in the soil and the cold has almost no effect on them. They are very hardy and it will take many treatments and even seasons in some cases to eliminate them completely from the turf.

Sedges Grasses

Sedges are grass weeds that are more aquatic and produce tubulars as well as seeds. They fall in the same category as perennial weeds that they can live indefinitely but, require a completely different control method through selective chemical treatments to completely eliminate them from the turf. Their stems unlike most grasses which are round or flat and triangle in shape. They also produce seed head/ flowers which resemble a little spike ball. Hard to control and can reproduce tubular roots and nodes that spread underground and pierce through the soil to spread more plants allowing them to become large in overall width. The most common in the southern lawn is Purple nuts edge and Yellow. They thrive in sparse lawn areas under wet conditions. Best defense is a healthy dense stand of turf.