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Jenny wrote:
We had no snow cover this winter and a warm, dry spring. As a result my
10,000 sq ft of lawn, which was crabgrass-free last year at this time is
literally covered with the stuff--despite our putting down preventer
right a week before the forsythia bloomed.

I'm not talking a clump here and there, but large tracts of the stuff,
and this is despite having thick grass which grows up around it. I
already mow to 3" when the lawn is 4".

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Is it confirmed crabgrass, or could it be quackgrass?? In my area (SW
Chicago area) quackgrass is common on treated lawns as the services
*claim* there's no way to treat it withought killing off other
grasses.

I've got quackgrass, too, but this is most definitely crabgrass.

Looks like I'm going to be spending some time weeding, though as the
other poster said, the problem with that is then you end up with a big
open space into which more weeds grow.

I overseed every fall as this lawn is an ongoing renovation project
thanks to the imbecile builder and his lawn-o-weeds he stuck us with.

I just have to just keep telling myself, "This is a country lawn, this
is a country lawn! And remember that the sheep and roosters across the
road probably don't mind if it looks messy. g

--Jenny

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