Eight Year Weed Problem Identified

Q. For 8 years I have tried killing these weeds, they won't die with commercial strength weed killers. In.the last 5 years, I have hired 3 different la escape companies. Each has claimed they can kill them. No success. I finally had a landscape company remove all of my beautiful plants. Any ideas?

We problem that won't die.

A. Judging from the seed heads I saw in the picture this is common Bermudagrass. Some people call it devils grass. A single application of a weed killer will not be enough. It will laugh you.If you try to dig it up or rototill it… hahahahahaha... You have just propagated it in multiple other locations.

You can guess why to get this under control takes a lot of perseverance and repeat spraying about two weeks apart. Spray it, kill it to the soil. Let it regrow 45 inches then kill it again. You have to do this for a five times in a row to get any kind of control.

Roundup concentrate at a 2% solution (2 ounces per gallon) will kill it back. When it regrow is a few inches, kill it again to the ground. Do this over and over and you'll begin to exhaust the roots. This is the only way to get any control of this weed.

 If it's growing close to plants that you are afraid be damaged, use a produt called Fusilade In the same way.

Yes, it does want to take over the earth where there is water.