A well-maintained, uniform lawn is something many homeowners desire, but the sight of nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus) can get in the way of this dream. Some may not like the way it looks, and even worse, ...
This is the time of year you may look out on your lawn and see taller thicker patches of grass that don’t match the rest of the yard. Nut grass is a perennial grass weed that’s notoriously hard to get ...
LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - How to control sedges, nutsedge, or what is commonly called ‘Nutgrass’ is a frequent question for one of our most obnoxious weeds. It is a question for which I just don’t have a ...
The official start to summer is on the near horizon, but the thermometer’s increasing readings indicate the growing season is already here. During these days of social distancing, the necessary yard ...
A friend of mine told me she had some type of fast-growing grass in our flower beds that seemed to grow even more when she pulled it up. She was wondering what this grass was and how to control it.
As Master Gardeners one thing we hear gardeners groan about is nutsedge, also referred to as nutgrass. It is listed as the worst weed by the Weed Science Society of America. Nutsedge (Cyperus ...
QUESTION: My friend has nutsedge in her yard that she has been fighting for several years. What can she use, and when can she do it, to finally get the perennial grasslike weed under control? ANSWER: ...
This year, all I wanted to do was join other water conscious Californians and kill my lawn. So a few months ago I gathered thousands of square feet of cardboard from behind a furniture store, spread ...
Yellow nutsedge is a challenging lawn weed. It’s a yellow-green, grass-like weed with waxy blades that grows faster than turfgrass. Being a sedge, it’s shiny stems are triangular-shaped rather than ...
Q. I’m in Hampton and have a horrible problem with nutgrass in my front flower beds, in the seams between my walkway to the driveway, and one area of the sidewalk to the driveway. I tried an Ortho ...
A yellow nutsedge biotype (Res) from an Arkansas rice field has evolved resistance to acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting herbicides. The Res biotype previously exhibited cross-resistance to ALS ...