"Mark" expounded:

I planted a variety of nice plants in the front of my house in
Cincinnati Ohio at the end of April. However, since then I have had a
major problem with crabgrass. I sprayed some crabgrass killer on it on
multiple occasions, and it did not help much. Since then, I have been
reduce to pulling it out. (Of course, when I pull it out, I try to get
as much root out as I can.) I have peonies, day lillies, and
snapdragons in the garden. Can someone give me an idea as to how I can
control the crabgrass.

What makes you think it's crabgrass? Crabgrass is an annual and is
easily controlled in a flower bed by cultivating with a garden fork a
few times when it's germinating; I've never found it to be hard to
pull by hand even after it's established. It could be quackgrass, in
which case you have to remove all of the root, the smallest piece will
resprout quickly, quackgrass is very difficult to control.
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Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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