how to avoid crabgrass in the garden ?

Question

as it leaves thousands of seeds which germinate again when it dies?

Answer 1

Apply pre-emergent in the spring before the ground temperature reaches 70 degrees. The pre-emergent keeps those seeds from germinating and voila-- no crabgrass. Scott's offers a fertilizer with crabgrass preventer or look for a product with HALTS, a pre-emergent.

Keep your grass full and cut your grass on your mower's highest setting. Short grass allows more sun to the soil and stresses the grass when it gets hot. Crab grass is opportunistic. It will grow wherever it can. If your turf grass dies or goes dormant, crabgrass can take it's place in a hurry.

Whenever you're cutting grass, look for crabgrass plants and pull them out. it's hard, but it is effective.

Answer 2

If your garden is next to crabgrass, I sugguest using a divider between the two and making sure the crass doesnt start crawling over the divider. Use a weed killer before planting the garden to kill the grass and pull it all up by the roots before its dead and leaves seeds. If any comes back, continue to pull it by the roots each time. I dont think you'll ever be completely rid of the grass if it's in your area because seeds can blow into the garden, but starting off fresh, and watching it closely and removing the roots as soon as possible before the weed has a chance to take over is your best bet

Answer 3

Such a simple answer.
Apply Halts crabgrass prevention in Sept to control winter grassy weeds and in March for summer grassy weeds.
Keep at least 3 inches of free mulch from your city and your problems are over.
These time are for Dallas Texas so you application dates may vary.

Answer 4

I got the most crabgrass in bald patches of the lawn, where i had gone crazy with the fertilizer or herbicide.
So keep it planted up with the good grass as much as possible

Answer 5

The only thing I could suggest is using herbicide in the spring when the new shoots are coming up and before it reseeds, then mulch to help prevent reseeding

Answer 6

crab grass preventer will keep the seds from germinating apply in early spring