What grass is this???

[Hawk83]

Several of my lawns, and half the lawns in my area in general have this certain type of growth this time of year in the regular lawn.. fast, tall growing, bright green grass, that comes up in patches. it comes up rapidly faster than the regular lawn, and is VERY noticable as quickly as 1-2 days after cutting? Im in RI, so i would venture to guess this is a north eastern occurance, at the very least. My question is A) what is this stuff? &, B) how does one make it go bye bye? i've heard it referred to as "onion grass" b4, at least around here, but i am not sure if thats a correct or if onion grass is anything at all.. anyway, any help would be great.. one customer with a really nice lawn wants it gone and frankly, so do i !!! thanks in advance,
Hawk

[wingless]

That grass exists / existed on my lawn, in the well established sections. It is easy to pick / pull out by hand, down to the root. It does not grow back. I just leave them on the lawn and mulch the long shoots when cutting.

Some of these shoots were very mature and had thick trunks. Of all the weed types that were removed from my established lawn section, these were one of the easier types to eliminate, because of how well they pulled out with the root structure.

[wingless]

Oh, and year after year a national lawn chemical company treated for this problem, but only slowed the growth. The problem was never fixed.

Wait ½ to 1½ days after cut then carefully pick just this plant. They're easy to spot. No soil is removed. No effect on adjacent plants. Gone 4 good.

Easy.

[jrservices]

[QUOTE=Hawk83]Several of my lawns, and half the lawns in my area in general have this certain type of growth this time of year in the regular lawn.. fast, tall growing, bright green grass, that comes up in patches. it comes up rapidly faster than the regular lawn, and is VERY noticable as quickly as 1-2 days after cutting? Im in RI, so i would venture to guess this is a north eastern occurance, at the very least. My question is A) what is this stuff? &, B) how does one make it go bye bye? i've heard it referred to as "onion grass" b4, at least around here, but i am not sure if thats a correct or if onion grass is anything at all.. anyway, any help would be great.. one customer with a really nice lawn wants it gone and frankly, so do i !!! thanks in advance,
Hawk[/QUOTE tall fescue.

[Hawk83]

yea wel lthere is a lot of in this one "patch, and it would take a few mins to pluck it all out.. JR- tall fescue you say?? isn't that like a certain type of grass that is actually desired?? this stuff looks way out of place and messy...

[jrservices]

http://search.msn.com/images/details.aspx?q=tall+fescue&color=both&size=1p&ht=167&wd=259&tht=82&twd=128&su=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hammerstonelawncare.com%2fproblems%2ftallfescue.html&iu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hammerstonelawncare.com%2fproblems%2fTallFescue.jpg&tu=http%3a%2f%2fimages.picsearch.com%2fis%3fRrgZqNB061yhwQesQ_0xyka5AbWL1ZsMIzWDWXX5Au8&sz=44

[NJCleancut]

Sounds to me like nutgrass or nutsedge. Get a lot of that in my area. There are a few products that will kill it. We usually just pull it out.

[jrservices]

yea wel lthere is a lot of in this one "patch, and it would take a few mins to pluck it all out.. JR- tall fescue you say?? isn't that like a certain type of grass that is actually desired?? this stuff looks way out of place and messy...

post some pics, so we know what it is.

[jrservices]

Pic of nutsedge. Note the three sides on the plant..... Usually treated with manage.......http://images.search.yahoo.com/searc...t=626&ei=UTF-8

[wingless]

Yes, the tall, skinny, faster-growing, plant that is easy to completely remove, roots and all, is the yellow nutsedge. (Thank goodness I've never let it get that tall.)

The tall fescue is another story. That is a pain in the butt! I am most of the way through erradicating this from my front lawn. It has also been removed from by the street and by the driveway. What a difference! There is a section on my side lawn with the tall fescue that will also need attention.

Pulling this plant requires extra effort to avoid a crater. I use my idle hand to squeeze the dirt ball into the hole at removal of the plant and root structure. These also get chopped up with mowing.

[Hawk83]

Yes, i think my issue is with the nutsedge as well, and tho i have never seen it so tall as to bud liek that at the tip, the stalk of it is a dead ringer for the light green crap i see everywhere...thanks for the help guys, i really appreciate it.. off to kill this stuff now

[SG]

Yellow Nutsedge. Chemically controlled with Manage or Image.

[Mike J]

Did a quik search

http://www.lawnserviceforum.com/show...light=nutsedge


http://www.lawnserviceforum.com/show...light=nutsedge

Good info in both of these threads about getting rid of nutsedge.