Pre-emergent herbicide for controlling crabgrass

thebackbar

Hello,

I've been reading that a pre-emergent herbicide can help limit crabgrass in a lawn.

Does anyone here use a pre-emergent herbicide on the lawn ? What brand would you recommend ?

blackbox

Any brand of glyphosphate will kill all green growth. Roundup is market leader.

Note that it takes several weeks before you see grass dying, especially if weather is cold, but you don't wait until then to sow seed. You can actually sow before you spray.

Make sure you spray it on a dry day before your lawn seed germinates.

thebackbar

blackbox wrote: »

Any brand of glyphosphate will kill all green growth. Roundup is market leader.

Note that it takes several weeks before you see grass dying, especially if weather is cold, but you don't wait until then to sow seed. You can actually sow before you spray.

Make sure you spray it on a dry day before your lawn seed germinates.

Roundup would kill all the grass which i want to avoid, in this article they mention pre-emergent herbicide https://celticgardens.ie/lawn-care-tips/

blackbox

thebackbar wrote: »

Roundup would kill all the grass which i want to avoid, in this article they mention pre-emergent herbicide https://celticgardens.ie/lawn-care-tips/

It certainly would - sorry I misunderstood - I thought you were making a new lawn.

I've never come across what you are looking for.

thebackbar

just to follow up on this thread, it would appear that you can only get this type of herbicide in the US

Lumen

thebackbar wrote: »

just to follow up on this thread, it would appear that you can only get this type of herbicide in the US

I think the situation is a bit more complicated than that.

https://thelawnforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=58796&sid=82903319051eda44e7e22930175dda27#p58796

Hocus Focus

The webpage you linked to has a phone number and an email address, contact them direct and ask for details.