On Dec 19, 8:17*am, Frank wrote:
On 12/19/2011 7:52 AM, Pat Kiewicz wrote:

Frank said:

Comes in on ivy banks and even grass. *Don't know what it is.

http://i39.tinypic.com/o54aa1.jpg

Can't tell too much from the picture, but here is an aggressive,
invasive grass that you'd want to hope it isn't (but it could be):

Japanese Stilt Grass
http://dnr.wi.gov/invasives/fact/japanstgrass.htm

Thanks. *That has to be it as rest of description at site fits.
Looks like physical control (pulling) is only real option I have as
glyphosphate would harm grass or surrounding ground cover. *As neighbors
on three sides in back do nothing to control it, they would be seed
source even if all mine was removed.

For years, I thought it was shading out ivy from growing on banks until
I discovered deer were the problem.

Frank

See I repeated myself about the deer. Deer season is all I think
about in the fall and wife won't let me touch those that invade us.-

Knowing what this stuff is now, I may vary my premerg campaign in the
back yard to weed and feed instead of premerg in the spring.
Crabgrass is not as much a threat in the back as in the front.