Crabgrass
Later in the year, when the weather gets cold, crabgrass dies and turns into giant brown spots all of your lawn. Crabgrass makes its way onto your lawn by growing in thin or bare spots around your yard and crowding out good grass that may be weak. This can be caused by mowing your lawn too short, insect and disease activity, or other related problems. Once Crabgrass starts, its seeds spread throughout the property, creating more places for this weed to pop up.
Lynch Landscaping offers pre-emergent and post-emergent applications that eliminate this lawn nuisance and allow your lawn to go back to being healthy and full of green grass blades.
Why is Crabgrass bad?
Crabgrass can certainly cause issues in your lawn. It grows fast and wide, crowding out healthy turfgrass. It also competes for water, nutrients, and sunlight, which causes lawns to thin out and become patchy.
Crabgrass is easy to spot as it has a different look, color, and texture. It is coarse, typically colored with light green, and sticks out in a clump.
As crabgrass dies off in the fall, it leaves bare patches, making it extremely easy for more weeds to emerge the following year. One weed can produce thousands of seeds within a single season, making it harder to get rid of and for healthy grass to grow.
Our Crabgrass Program
Pre-Emergent Program
Our pre-emergent services use herbicides that target weed seeds before they germinate. This stops new weeds from sprouting. The herbicide applied forms a barrier in the soil's top layer, so when crabgrass seeds begin to germinate, the herbicide gets into the roots, killing the seedling before it emerges.
Post-Emergent Program
If you already have crabgrass, you will need post-emergent services. This includes spot spraying areas with heavily established crabgrass weeds and a blanket spray that covers the entire lawn area. The product used does not affect grass; it only targets crabgrass weeds. Typically it will take a couple applications to completely eliminate crabgrass if you have a lot already established.
We highly recommend doing a pre-emergent and post-emergent crabgrass program as well as a fertilizer program, to eliminate current and future crabgrass while taking care of the existing healthy grass.