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Old 25-06-2008, 08:50 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
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Default Can someone identify this grass please
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:49:22 -0700 (PDT),
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On Jun 24, 10:21*pm, Twitchell wrote:
In article , Steven Wayne says...



Hi,

I've found some patches of grass that grow really fast and I wonder if
someone could identify it for me please.

How to get rid of it would be nice to know too.


It looks like a rough undesirable grass, possibly poa trivialis, rough
stalk bluegrass. The bad news is, with the grass type weed problem,
the usual broadleaf weedkillers are ineffective, because it's a grass,
not a weed. And often there is no available effective herbicide at
all. You may have to use Roundup on it and then re-seed.

It's certainly an undesirable, but the pictures of poa trivialis I've
just seen via Google don't look like mine.

I think the Roundup method is probably the way to go.

Thanks.

Steven
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