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We were able to bring back my mother's (RIP) lawn to glorious health with
very
little. We started with corn gluten which provides both weed inhibitor
and gentle
fertilizer. We then did need to use a weed killer, applied as a liquid
just to spots
of weeds. Then we put a watering system on a timer. The mower is a
mulching mower
which puts the chopped up green nutrients right back into the lawn. I
dont think her
lawn ever looked as good as it did last summer. It WAS NOT weed free.
But it looked
so good, healthy, green that the few weeds just dont matter.
Ingrid


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t.net...
Is it time to start treating a lawn in the Baltimore area? If so, what
treatment should be applied first?

I used a general purpose turf spray on my lawns for the first couple of
years to knock back hard years of lawn negligence (previous owners). It did
thin out the weeds dramatically however the more I learnt the more reluctant
I have become to using these sprays. My experience of a weed and feed type
spray was that I may as well have used cold instant coffee, such was the
variable result. Turf spray also didn't control the couch and crab grass. I
got stuck in to those *******s with roundup. My preference now however is to
simply crown the weeds/grasses with a knife or pull them out by hand. It is
quite labour intensive however over time even the hardiest of weeds seem to
give up and accept they ain't growing in the lawn. I have not noticed any
regrowth of couch in areas I have crowned over the last 3 years. I repeat
however that it is quite labour intensive.

rob