I'll top post there you can find it.

My thanks for all the cute answers. I'm 78 and getting a little slow so I
just can't keep up with the grass.

Sorry I bothered you, I won't again.


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On Mar 25, 8:15 pm, Eggs Zachtly wrote:
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Glenn said:





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On Mar 25, 6:20 pm, Eggs Zachtly wrote:
Glenn said:

I lose the battle of grass and other crap in my garden every year. I
only
plant corn (3 plantings), a few tomatoes from plants, maybe a couple
hills
of cantaloupe and broadcast some flowers across one end.

Is there a pre-emergent that I can use just after the things I want
are
above the ground, for the grass that won't kill everything else?

If it's a "pre-emergent", it won't kill anything that's already
germinated.
Depending on your location (you were more than a bit vague about that),
it
/may/ be too late to apply. Then again, it may not.

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I'd also make sure the pre-emergent is listed for use on vegetable
crops used for food.

Kansas City area. I won't be putting in the first planting of corn for a
couple weeks and the rest by May 10 (accepted area end of frost here). I
have a 4' tiller on the back of my John Deere that I will last till just
before each planting.

Why would you want to put pre-emergent in your vegetable garden? Are you
too lazy to actually pull weeds? That's a part of gardening, you know.


I feel better now. I thought you were endorsing his idea. I guess
you didn't read his post carefully.




If you put down a pre-emergent now, and then till, you've wasted your
money. A pre-emergent creates a barrier that germinating seeds can't
penetrate, so they die. If you disturb that barrier, even mildly, then any
seed can germinate.



If they are poking their head out, a pre-emergent won't hurt them?

Please spend about 10 seconds actually thinking about the meaning of the
word "pre-emergent".

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I think what he means here is if the vegetables are coming up, that
the pre-emergent won't hurt them. All I know is pre-emergent is
one chemical I don't need or want in my garden.





Eggs

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