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Planting Grass Seed Will keep Turf Weeds Away

Planting Grass Seed in bare turf locations not only makes your entire property look better it actually is the best approach to help keep weeds under control.

If you talk to a house owner, that values his or her lawn, which lawn weed do you hope never lived? The majority would likely tell you crabgrass. Crabgrass is termed appropriately due to its crab like appearance and its capacity to crawl and over take your turf, particularly thin turf or bare turf areas.

Each year homeowners as well as landscaping professionals make an effort to reduce the spread of this sprawling weed with pre emergent crabgrass control chemicals. The fact is that very few individuals understand how these chemicals work on managing the crabgrass under control and usually tend to be disappointed with the results.

Crabgrass is an annual weed, which means it'll die off during the fall. You may think that's the end of this dreaded weed but just a single dead crabgrass plant can easily leave hundreds of seeds on the soil to sprout up again next summer ready to invade your turf once more.

Pre emergent crabgrass control must be applied in a crucial window of time to be effective, as a general rule of thumb, the window is between Forsythia and Lilac blossom, it is essential to apply before the crabgrass seed begins to germinate.

Once applied and activated by water, the chemical substance turns into a vapor. The vapor sits on the surface of the soil and when the crabgrass seed begins to germinate it enters this vapor layer and dies off. The vapor layer is tremendously vunerable to the suns ultraviolet radiation and will be very easily destroyed if directly exposed to sunlight.

Raking the turf after the application will destroy the vapor layer as well as heat generated by curbs, drive-ways and walkways also will break down the vapor layer. To keep crabgrass under control you'll want to shade the crabgrass seed from the sunshine, starving it from necessary sunshine to grow. The best way to get this done is to grow a healthy stand of turf mowed at the tallest height possible.

An article written March 31 2011 states in The Emporia Gazette- Crabgrass is rarely a problem in lawns that are dense and mowed at the proper height. This is because crabgrass seed requires contact with the soil and sunlight to grow. Lawns that are dense and mowed appropriately do not have exposed soil, preventing invasion by weeds. See Story.

The dense, longer grass blades will not allow the sunlight to pierce the soil surface so the crabgrass seeds don't get the opportunity to germinate. The dense longer grass blades also assist the chemical vapor from becoming ruined. Therefore, the first thing you need to do to keep this much disliked weed from penetrating your yard is to thicken any patchy, thin, bare turf problems.

Which can be easier said than done, up to now people would dig out all the dead thatch as well as bring in topsoil as well as mulch in order to repair turf areas for getting seed to germinate, which is difficult, time consuming and quite expensive. There is a new tool named the Grass Stitcher which enables planting grass seed trouble-free. This ergonomic eco-lawn seeding tool punctures directly though dead thatch, recycling the dead thatch to shield the seed for exceptional seed germination and truly outstanding success eachtime.

The best way to end that crabgrass cycle is to simply keep the dead crabgrass in its place and stitch right through the dead crabgrass and then broadcast the seeds. The seeds will actually grow up within the dead crabgrass, overtaking the area and ultimately shading the crabgrass seeds from germinating. The following video will show all the details regarding how to do this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFZRSNrm8uw

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