I hope that someone here can help you. We don’t do anything with our yard, except mow it. Dandelions are pretty and a good source of vitamin C. Clover is great fertilizer and doesn’t ever get too tall.
With respect to our yard - it has to make do with mother nature. If we plant it and it doesn’t survive, we just plant something else. Our vacant lot has oodles of wildflowers, and we just let that go till the bloom period is over. Many of those plants are edible or medicinal, though we don’t at this point take advantage of that.
One of my main reasons for gardening is to raise food that I know has not been exposed to pesticides, or at least if an organic compound is used, I know what it is and how much.
Because of that, my knowledge with respect to what you ask is practically nil. I am sorry that I don’t know more to help you.
Thanks for the feedback. I do like to keep my yard looking nice. Dandelion has got to be the easiest weed in the world to control. Weed-b-gone obliterates it.
Clover is not particularly ugly in a homogeneous lawn, but I’m hoping to find something that is as effective against clover as weed-b-gone (24D) is against Dandelion.
The weeds I hate the most are Goathead (Roundup & 24D are very effective against it), Hairy Fleabane (Roundup and 24D hardly dent it) and Nutsedge (Sedgehammer is very effective).
When I bought my house 4 years ago it had been empty for a few years and the yard was a disaster. The first two years I used LOTS of Roundup and 24D to kill the copious amount of weeds. Now I use next to nothing because it’s nearly homogeneous Bermuda. But the clover is still there and I would like to get rid of it.