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Steveo · 22-12-2006, 10:25 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden

wrote:
JimR wrote:
"MANIC_D" wrote in message
ups.com...
Don`t panic, the solution is simple. Round-up kills everything, it`s
not what you want because it will kill your good grass. Use 24-D,
commercially known as weed-B-gone. I`ts expensive as hell if you buy
it retail. I recommend a company called Agri-Supply, it`s a third of
the cost and you can hose down the entire lawn as it does`nt harm
grass. It is a contact herbicide so the onion has to be up for it to
be effective. Remember to thatch and re-seed when the onion dies.
Eric Kent wrote:
Sorry if this has been covered before. I have a problem with wild
onions in my yard. My grass is a mix of centipede and St.
Augustine. I live in the South if that is important.
I've tried some granules with mixed success. I've also used round
up but it looks bad to have large dead spots in the yard. However,
if round up is the only solution, I'll be willing to sterilize the
entire yard to get rid of the things. I dislike them that much.

Any suggestions?

ERic

No, no, no, that's a bad idea -- 2, 4-D should not be used on St.
Augustine grass -- it'll kill it. St. Augustine is biologically much
closer to a weed or crabgrass than it is to a conventional turf grass
and herbicides that can be used on northern cool-weather turf shouldn't
be used on St. Augustine..

If you're going to use a herbicide over your entire lawn -- something
I'd suggest against, in any case -- read the label - all of it - in
detail. You're likely to find that buried somewhere in the verbiage is
a list of plants on which the chemical should NOT be used, and the list
for many lawn chemicals (including those with 2,4 D) will include St.
Augustine grass. It's hard to find a pesticide that effectively will
kill weeds in your St. Augustine lawn. You're probably better off to
spot treat where needed.

Incidentally, 2,4-D was 50% of the contents of Agent Orange, although
the well-known problems with AO probably came from other dioxins in the
mix --

Regards --

Not to mention that he's wrong that it's very expensive and of much use
against wild onions, which are very difficult to kill compared to a
typical broadleaf weed.

Yes, and the dioxin that has been outlawed for 20 years or more. Don't
cornfuse them with the facts, Trader.

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