Can I get rid of wide bladed grass--see photo--from my lawn?

[sixdogs]

I've got a fair amount of wide blade type grass that showed up in my lawn when I reseeded portion of it. I figure some strange seed got in the mix or something blew in with the wind. Anyway, is there a way to spray out this wide grass from the law and not kill the narrower grass? I thought I read somewhere that it was possible but not sure where I saw it. Here's the photo...



Can I do anything to get rid of this stuff?

 

[bigtiller]

A horticulturist on a local news channel here said last year there are 2 ways to do it. Kill it or dig it out roots and all. He dug 6" down to get as much of the roots as possible, then sprayed the sides and bottom of the hole with round-up, filled the hole with compost and potting soil and sprinkled a few grass seeds around.

 

[8N Ren]

Crab grass, yes you can get rid of it, find a weed killer/fertilizer in one, up here we have a good one called PAR III, I assume you can get it in the states.

 

[AaronS]

That doesn't really look like crabgrass to me. Looks more like a different variety of fescue. There are herbicides that will kill crabgrass and not fescue (Trimec comes to mind), but I'm not aware of anything that will single out individual varieties of fescue.

 

[sixdogs]

A horticulturist on a local news channel here said last year there are 2 ways to do it. Kill it or dig it out roots and all. He dug 6" down to get as much of the roots as possible, then sprayed the sides and bottom of the hole with round-up, filled the hole with compost and potting soil and sprinkled a few grass seeds around.

I neglected to mention this is scattered around two or more acres. That's a lot of digging so it's on my "B" list.

Crab grass, yes you can get rid of it, find a weed killer/fertilizer in one, up here we have a good one called PAR III, I assume you can get it in the states.

Do you know the active ingredient in this? I'll look into it.

That doesn't really look like crabgrass to me. Looks more like a different variety of fescue. There are herbicides that will kill crabgrass and not fescue (Trimec comes to mind), but I'm not aware of anything that will single out individual varieties of fescue.

Well, I do think it's a different sort of grass but not 100% sure. There must be a way if you can kill crabgrass? That's no more than a wide grass, isn't it?

 

[kcflhrc]

Looks an awful lot like Kentucky Blue grass to me

 

[coveredbridge]

Looks an awful lot like Kentucky Blue grass to me

looks more like quack grass than crab grass or blue grass

 

[8N Ren]

PAR III
Active Ingredients: mecoprop-p, 2-4-D & dicamba

 

[sixdogs]

Looks an awful lot like Kentucky Blue grass to me

No...too wide for that.

looks more like quack grass than crab grass or blue grass

Could be any of those three. Can I spray those out?

 

[Jstpssng]

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