How do I kill my lawn?

Question

I have a lawn and I want to kill it to grow another one. I heard about weed killer, but I don't know what it actually does, some of them say they won't harm lawns? How can I kill my entire lawn? Please help!

Answer 1

It would really depend on the kind of grass you have now. If it is crab grass or St. Agustine or Burmuda grass, it's a bit more tricky. It also depends on the size of your lawn.
In either case, you can rent a "sod cutter" from Home Depot and adjust the depth of the cutter and just cut it out. If you have fescue or rye grass, it should come up pretty easy and you can just lay new sod right over the top of the old lawn. If you have crab, burmuda or St. Augustine, a sod cutter will help, but any stolons left underground will come back. You might want to cut the sod out first and then treat the yard with something like "Brush-b-Gon" first, wait a week or so, do it again if the grass comes back and treat any other spots. Wait a few more weeks before replanting any new grass.
If you are in fact trying to get rid of the crab, burmuda or St. Augustine, good luck (you have to keep a constant eye out for regrowth - it can come back and choke out your fescue). If you are just trying to replace your fescue or rye with St. Augustine or burmuda, it's pretty easy as both of these grasses are quite aggressive and will take very quickly!

If it sounds like to much, call a landscaping company, (any company that cuts lawns will most likely do it.... check around and drop names and prices - they are ALWAYS trying to underbid each other and you can get a great deal that way)

Answer 2

Carla---any time you employ a weed killer on the grass and weeds there is often a huge gamble that the Roundup will leach in to the real flowers you do not prefer to kill. Weeds and grass are flowers---you place timber chips down and function spent money which you probably did not would desire to spend. timber chips is greater messy. study the returned of the Roundup bottle and you will see that there is a volume of time that the soil would desire to stay dormant.Why--kill the hot foilege that became in simple terms planted. After the dormant periiod plant the flowers ya choose. Use plastic sheets whilst ever you employ timber chips.

Answer 3

The product, RoundUp, goes through the leaves, down the stem and into the roots to kill the whole plant. The makers of RoundUp say that we can re-plant within 24 hours.

Do a search on RoundUp for more information.

Answer 4

IF you kill your lawn then you kill it for good. Weed killer is for weeds not lawns.
If you are trying to make your lawn look nice then use fertilizer. But killing it wont bring back another one. Grass has roots and if you kill the grass you kill the roots and you wont have nothing.

Answer 5

I also suggest that you till it, and perhaps do a soil test. In September, seed it, fertilize it, and make sure it gets plenty of water. If you buy the Scotts brand of seed, it will tell you when to fertilize. Remember: S.O.D. September, October, December. These are the months you fertilize. And, you can do it again in early spring for a nice green-up.

Answer 6

You can try tilling it. What this will do, is flip all of your grass and then in the fall, re-seed.
You can ask your local home improvement store for help.
But tilling it will probably work best.

Answer 7

Breath on it.