What chemicals should I recommend?

[bblouie]

I have a customer that has a peach and pecan orchard in their back yard. About 20 trees of each type. They also have two figs and two tangelo trees in there. Each year they sell the crops on a u-pick basis. About four feet from the first row of trees their lawn, that I mow, begins. They have two questions: 1) what pre and post emergent would be safe for the orchard and 2) what kind of "weed and feed" would be safe in their lawn. Some other details: their entire yard is irrigated every 12-14 days (I don't mean sprinklers, I mean flood), the lawn is mostly common bermuda with some small stands of clover and dichondra. There are several weeds in the lawn: dandylions, spurge, (above mentioned clover and dichondra), crabgrass and some others as well. The orchard has the same weeds.
Their method for keeping the orchard weed free now is to hire some laborers and give them shovels and rakes. They currently use nothing in the lawn, thus the weeds.
Thanks in advance for any info.


Steve

[MASTERMOWER]

I don't wanna sound like an a-hole, but if you have you ask you ought to not apply anything.

Spraying herbicides on a lawn and in a orchard are two different things, which you realize..... The herbicide label will contain the information you need to know. Usually weed infestations in an orchard is nothing to worry about unless they begin to jeopardize the health of the trees and/or the quality if the fruit.

You're not gonna have a 1st class quality lawn in the mist of the orchard.....just not gonna happen.

[bblouie]

You don't sound like an a-hole and I am not applying anything. I only mow and edge. My customer asked me what I recommend. I told him that the pre-e that I have used warns against using near crops, fruit trees and nut trees. The lawn is not in the midst of the orchard. It starts four feet away from the last row of trees. I mentioned that because I am sure the roots of the trees are in the lawn, so anything I put on the lawn will affect the trees. I think that Roundup is safe as a post-emergent, but I wanted to be sure before I tell my customer any info. The herbicide label will tell me what I want to know, but I don't know which label...thus the question.

Steve

[Scott]

You should contact your county ext agent. He'll have all your answers and solutions.