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05-13-2007, 05:41 PM
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Let's Rock!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Wareham, MA
Posts: 1,208
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Need some help.....Dandylions!
My lawn has been overtaken by dandylions....worse than I have ever seen.....any clue how I can get a handle on these things....they just keep multipying...overnight.....it's crazy....I tried a fertilizer with weed control, but it's not touching it.....any ideas? Thanks
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05-13-2007, 06:16 PM
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DDG-51
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,550
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I lo$t the weed battle. The system Scotts has works great, but I was spending more on Scott's than I could justify, and my wife was worried about the kids and chemicals.
I swear the chemists who invented that stuff figured out how to ruin a lawn once you stop using their product, because once I stopped the yard went to hell in a handbag. Now my kids ride their bikes all over it and I can spend the money I save on gas, oil and electricity.  |
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05-13-2007, 06:36 PM
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wishin' i was fishin'
Join Date: May 2001
Location: toooo far from the beach !!
Posts: 211
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make dandelion wine  |
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05-13-2007, 06:52 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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You need to apply the weednfeed ONLY when the grass is wet. Very early morning or after a good rain.. Needs to stick to the greens to work. Absolutely useless if it does not.
I used to have a Scotts lawn...then I moved to the stix and now I don't give a crap as long as it's green. Crabgrass looks good too in the summer.
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05-13-2007, 06:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Bridgewater
Posts: 350
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Roto till the hole thing and start from scratch! 
Scotts puts out a hose end spray bottle of the Weed & Feed. Ortho or someone puts out a mixture or concentrate for a garden sprayer. But that puts you back using chemicals....
Someone mentioned letting the grass get high so it chokes them out in combination with alot of hand picking...  |
20' Aquasport CC 115hp Johnson 'SiouxToo'
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05-13-2007, 07:14 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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Guy's estate in Maine I do tower work at is a completely natural lawn. No chemicals and no weeds. NOT ONE.
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05-13-2007, 07:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,558
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always mow before they get white and puffy. the puffy stuff are seeds. if you dont yer screwed. you can buy a tool for digging up dandy lions. it looks like a crow bar with a v shaped notch in the business end.. get it , dig em out and always mow before they go white.
no more dandy lions.
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05-13-2007, 10:00 PM
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Wave Jumper
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: On The Edge!
Posts: 443
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Hell if it weren't for the dandy's I wouldn't have a green lawn! I really can't wait for the heat of summer ... no watering, mow it so it's about 1/2" long and let it burn. No maintainance and more time to fish. I'm almost ready to pave the front yard and paint it green.
I hate grass ... yeah even the ones you twist up too.
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Insanity is a long and winding road ... I think I finally made it there.
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05-14-2007, 06:48 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,182
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Pull 'em...
-spence
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05-14-2007, 09:26 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 186
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05-14-2007, 04:50 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: S. Yarmouth, MA
Posts: 1,604
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Dandelios are absolutely out of control around here. Usually I can go out a few times with a five gallon bucket and an old knife I found and go down for the root and once they're gone that's it, so I tried a Vigoro Weed 'n Feed this year and was amazed at the job it did on the dandelions. And after putting that down if there were spots it seemed I missed, I just took my hand held monkey grinder spreader. In a matter of days it was obvious I won. Unfortunately, whatever was in that fertlizer was like steroids on the grass. It grows back very fast and very green. I have a service do my front yard and they cut it twice. one guy in one direction and than another goes in another. Last week, they had to have a third guy come with grass catchers to vacuum up what the first two couldn't mulch. I forget which Vigoro Weed 'N Feed, think it had a 19 in the mixture numbers.
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05-14-2007, 04:52 PM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,349
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Go blackfishing!
seriously, the old timers would say when the dandylines arrive, go blackfishing!
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Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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05-14-2007, 05:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 5,695
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Agway.They're 4 step works just as well as Scotts but at a much cheaper price.
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05-14-2007, 05:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 252
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get a goat
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05-14-2007, 05:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Cranberry Coast Gateway 2 Cape Cod
Posts: 4,143
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I'm with Teaser let it burn and weeds r green and thoes preety yellow flowers . I used to be a yard freak and did yard care for X-tra $$$ on weekends but got burnt out working all the time and then the 1st boat 7 yrs ago . Oh yea like salty said damp grass & weed & feed
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05-15-2007, 09:46 AM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Wee-b-gon concentrate
Buy a spray bottle that dispenses at the end of your hose at different rates, like 1 oz. per gallon and son on. Then get yourself some weed-b-gon concentrate, not the premix stuff. And spray it on your lawns weeds. Works well.
But like #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& says, if it is out of a bag if you don't apply it first thing in the morning on the dew then you wasted your money.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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05-15-2007, 10:08 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,178
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Make a Salad.........A BIG Salad
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