Tia,
It looks like crab grass to me because it's the same in nature as mine
but, it's a different variety then we've got here in Colorado. Good
luck, you're going to need it. I battled with crabgrass and with it's
runners for many years. There's all kinds of chemical treatments you
can use (scott's treatments etc) but, there are only two ways I know
to get rid of it in a non-toxic way is to remove it manually. I dug
it up and used a hand cultivator to go through and pull out the
runners (but I still have to maintain it constantly). Another
suggestion I read in an organic gardening book was to cover it up for
over two years with thick plastic and smother it. But for us
gardeners it hardly an option to give up precious space to black thick
plastic even if it's covered in mulch. The stuff is nasty and
completely invasive. Let me know what works for you when you figure
out what you're going to do.

Lee

On Nov 14, 1:56 pm, (Malcolm Hoar) wrote:
I have grass-like weed growing rampantly in a damp and
shaded part of my lawn (in Northern California). It
spreads via runners up to 3ft long or more. Here are
some pics of bits I pulled up:
http://www.malch.com/DSC_4781.jpghtt...m/DSC_4782.jpg


The infected area is just a few square yards but I've
pulled armfulls of this stuff over the past few weeks.

Can anyone help me identify this? Is it some variety
of crabgrass?

Suggested treatments to eradicate the problem? Am I
correct in thinking that intensive treatment should
be administered in the early spring?

TIA

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