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Crabgrass Control

One of the primary weed concerns in home lawns is crabgrass. Prevention is the key to control, and spring is time to act before this weed appears in lawns. There are both cultural and chemical control options to consider. Crabgrass is a warm-season annual grass. No matter how many crabgrass plants appeared in your lawn last year, they are all dead. Crabgrass will not start germinating until soil temperatures get close to 60 degrees and stays there for several consecutive days.

Pre-emergence herbicides (weed killers) are available to use in spring for crabgrass control. These need to be applied to the lawn before crabgrass germinates and most pre-emergence crabgrass herbicides are found in combination with lawn fertilizers, so crabgrass prevention and spring fertilization can be done at the same time. Come into The Mercantile and get a early start on your crabgrass control.