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Any Lawn and Garden Folks Out There? (vanity/help)

Posted on 05/22/2011 6:34:34 PM PDT by freejohn

Am I the first 'dummy' to ever post something SO off topic and foreign to FReerepublic?
There just aren't ANY forums (Regardless of topic) where folks respond as quickly as here!
I have this stuff that just 'exploded' and is taking over my lawn and have No idea what it is called or What will do away with it!?
Some answers that I have received from elsewhere are: shotweed, bittercress and clover.
Sure hope there's a weed expert around?
Thanks Everyone.





TOPICS: Agriculture; Chit/Chat; Gardening; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: weed; yard
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To: freejohn

Mrs. VV is a Henrico Co Master Gardener. She doesn’t think it’s Chickweed because your picture shows rounded leaves not pointed. If you take a sample to a local extention center they can positively identify it.

Reply if you would like some more specific info on where the centers are.


61 posted on 05/22/2011 8:28:09 PM PDT by VA Voter
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To: Daffynition

In Virginia, also. I have a grapevine that’ll do that if I ignore it for a few weeks. It’s as agressive as can be.


62 posted on 05/22/2011 8:29:45 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: freejohn
I think that it may very well be chickweed.

Me too. Looks like what tried to take over my lawn two years ago. Hand dug it all out by the roots. What a job.

63 posted on 05/22/2011 8:30:17 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Krankor
I don't have any close ups of my lawn but .. by the pictures you can see WHY I am happy to have ANY lawn at all!
I live in a Forest!



64 posted on 05/22/2011 8:31:26 PM PDT by freejohn
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To: Bernard Marx
My neighbor planted that infernal blue morning glory and it's gone under the fence and is taking over my red apple ice plant. The morning glory seems to thrive on RoundUp. If anyone knows how to kill it I'd be grateful for the information.

Morning glory is forever. Poison, backhoes and dynamite are helpless before it...
65 posted on 05/22/2011 8:33:03 PM PDT by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the first dumbass Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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To: freejohn

Do you think this infestation was in the lawn seed? If it is Oxalis you may be about to spray it and at this stage I would not worry about the grass. Oxalis generally sprouts from little nuts or corms that form at the root level of the plant. Try digging a couple of plants up with a trowel and look for the beginnings of those little suckers. The photo you posted at the start of the thread appeared to show runners spreading out from the plant and that is what I based my ID as Burr Clover...


66 posted on 05/22/2011 8:36:53 PM PDT by tubebender (Help! I've fallen, and I can't reach my wine!)
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To: freejohn

This looks exactly like what I have in my yard. They pull out easily by the roots and the grass eventually overtakes it. I just stoop down occasionally and pull out handfulls leaving bare spots behind but eventually as time goes by the grass grows in.

But I’m pretty sloppy in my approach to gardening. But I truly do not like putting chemicals or chemicalized fertilizers down as I compost EVERYTHING. I’m even worm farming these days.


67 posted on 05/22/2011 8:37:30 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: freejohn
I live in a Forest!

Um...your house isn't made of gingerbread, I hope.
68 posted on 05/22/2011 8:40:33 PM PDT by Krankor (And he's oh, so good, And he's oh, so fine, And he's oh, so healthy, In his body and his mind)
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To: freejohn

THAT, my friend is known as Spurge. i battled it for a few years. Hired the ‘Weed Man’ and bingo... the best lawn in town. I highly recommend them.


69 posted on 05/22/2011 8:45:03 PM PDT by BigFinn
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To: Krankor
"Um...your house isn't made of gingerbread, I hope."

Nope

Wouldn't last long if it were!
YUM

70 posted on 05/22/2011 8:57:45 PM PDT by freejohn
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To: freejohn

Oxalis appears to have heart shaped leaves, not the oval leaves that your weed has. I’ve seen your weed before — I remember my step mom doing battle against it (this was in East Tennesse) — but I don’t know its name.


71 posted on 05/22/2011 9:03:40 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
Oxalis appears to have heart shaped leaves, not the oval leaves that your weed has. I’ve seen your weed before — I remember my step mom doing battle against it (this was in East Tennesse) — but I don’t know its name.

ARGGGGGG
Lawn Fire it's gonna be!

72 posted on 05/22/2011 9:11:59 PM PDT by freejohn
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To: freejohn

Actually, your lawn looks great. I’d swap any day.


73 posted on 05/22/2011 9:13:26 PM PDT by Krankor (And he's oh, so good, And he's oh, so fine, And he's oh, so healthy, In his body and his mind)
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To: freejohn

This list might help you:

http://www.garden-counselor-lawn-care.com/identify-lawn-weeds.html

Otherwise use this resource to locate your local cooperative extension office: http://www.ext.vt.edu/offices/
Call them in the morning and tell them that you need a lawn weed ID. They will take it from there. You’ll be asked to bring a chunk of the plant with you. Either the extension agent will do it him/herself or they will have one of your county Master Gardeners do it. There will be no charge to you.


74 posted on 05/22/2011 9:21:07 PM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: tubebender

75 posted on 05/22/2011 9:24:53 PM PDT by fso301
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To: freejohn

Trefoil?


76 posted on 05/22/2011 9:26:55 PM PDT by devistate one four (United states code 10.311 Militia Kimber CDP II .45 OORAH! TET68)
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To: Krankor
Found a different angle of "some" of the front lawn.


77 posted on 05/22/2011 9:27:59 PM PDT by freejohn
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To: Daisyjane69

That Garden Counselor link .. is Great!

Thank You and .. Book Marked!


78 posted on 05/22/2011 9:34:05 PM PDT by freejohn
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To: freejohn

You’re welcome & good luck!


79 posted on 05/22/2011 9:36:46 PM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: freejohn

Hmmm. That really looks nice. Is that an azalea? You really do have quite a forest in the background. Do I see a hand plow back there, as well?


80 posted on 05/22/2011 9:48:54 PM PDT by Krankor (And he's oh, so good, And he's oh, so fine, And he's oh, so healthy, In his body and his mind)
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