How do you get rid of the weed paspalum?

Question

I moved into a rental house & am trying to get the yard/garden in order. The turf is a very fine blade variety (maybe couch) & there is paspalum embeded throughout. I have been hand pulling it out by hand an hour a day for the last month filling up the green waste bin twice, but I am still not finished. It just continues to sprout up everywhere. It grows really fast with tall shoots with black seeds and its smothering/killing the turf leaving large bald patches in the lawn. The roots are really thick and hard to pull. I have looked at Big W, Woolworth's, Bunnings, Cole's, & the local garden centre for a product that says it will kill it but I cannot find anything that specifically says it kills paspalum -- most things say they kill bindi, dandelions, etc. but again nothing lists paspalum specificly. There are products like Zero & Roundup that I have seen, but they kill the grass too. Does anyone know what I should be looking for in a product's ingredients to kill paspalum?

Answer 1

Any product that contains 2-4d should work.It will not harm your grass but you have to keep it off any broad leaf plant that you don't want to kill.

Answer 2

Have you tried "weed and feed" type fertilizers? Hint for pulling stubborn weeds - oh, what fun - use a screwdriver, trowel, or similar tool to poke in the ground under the roots to lever them out. what about having a weed pulling party - invite friends, have plenty of beverage (beer, wine, soda...) when weeding is done maybe some snacks, sandwitches, or a cook out. Good luck.