Best and Easiest Way To Get Rid of Crab Grass (store, garden)

[CometVoyager]

Hello my fellow New Hampshire Landscapers!!! What is the best way to restore a healthy lawn and rid it of crab grass??

Now I do not mean paving it over with asphalt or concrete or just plowing out the who lawn and putting in a new one.

Would appreciate this forums vintage Yankee Ingenuity in helping me solve this Nasty Problem, as I am too lazy to pull all those weeds myself!

Thanks Guys!

Comet

[Dwatted Wabbit]

Planting some kudzu should kill it.

[GregW]

Squash works as well but also kills the lawn. Go to the garden store and read the herbicide labels. The only thing that works with crabgrass is chemicals.

[JFRRACING]

PUT DOWN SOME CRAB TRAPS LOL. HA HA HA

[bryfry]

Best way to handle it is in very early spring. You can use a crabgrass preventer, which blocks their growth. If it's already established, you can slow it down, but you may have to wait until next spring for any significant results. It may take a couple of seasons to iradicate it all together.

JFRRACING might actually be on to something. Think of it, you can be an inland supplier of crab legs!

[CometVoyager]

Originally Posted by bryfry

Best way to handle it is in very early spring. You can use a crabgrass preventer, which blocks their growth. If it's already established, you can slow it down, but you may have to wait until next spring for any significant results. It may take a couple of seasons to iradicate it all together.

JFRRACING might actually be on to something. Think of it, you can be an inland supplier of crab legs!

I was thinking of trying to eradicate it by playing 24/7 Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song"

[bryfry]

Originally Posted by CometVoyager

I was thinking of trying to eradicate it by playing 24/7 Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song"

That would eradicate all of your neighbors as well.

[JFRRACING]

Originally Posted by CometVoyager

I was thinking of trying to eradicate it by playing 24/7 Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song"

i wouldn't do that. it will probably kill everything else in the yard possibly everything in the neiborhood. LOL

[jthibodeau]

Due to aesthetic reasons, I high doubt you'll consider this option. But seeing how you were looking for a little "Yankee Ingenuity", I'll offer this idea.

If you have an area that requires the removal of grass or weeds, cover the area with 4 or 6 mil black plastic and weigh the edges down so it won't blow away in the breeze. The heat generated under the plastic will kill all the growth.

The more direct sunlight it receives will determine the length of time you'll need to leave it in place. You'll need to kill the root system off also, so you'll have to check from time to time to see how it's doing.


I'll use this method for clearing the grass from a future garden spot. If you can leave the plastic on over the winter, by the springtime you'll have nothing but cleared earth under the covering waiting to be tilled or spaded.

Good luck....

[Valerie C]

You could alternate that with The Captain and Tennille's "Muskrat Love". Or maybe the Macarana... The crabgrass would rip itself out of your lawn...

Originally Posted by CometVoyager

I was thinking of trying to eradicate it by playing 24/7 Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song"