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

[VA Voter]

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.

[Riley]

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.

[Inyo-Mono]

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.

[freejohn]

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!

[Sparticus]

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...

[tubebender]

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...

[Auntie Mame]

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.

[Krankor]

I live in a Forest!

Um...your house isn't made of gingerbread, I hope.

[BigFinn]

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.

[freejohn]

"Um...your house isn't made of gingerbread, I hope."

Nope

Wouldn't last long if it were!
YUM

[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.

[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.

ARGGGGGG
Lawn Fire it's gonna be!

[Krankor]

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

[Daisyjane69]

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.

[fso301]

[devistate one four]

Trefoil?

[freejohn]

Found a different angle of "some" of the front lawn.

[freejohn]

That Garden Counselor link .. is Great!

Thank You and .. Book Marked!

[Daisyjane69]

You’re welcome & good luck!

[Krankor]

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?