Lawn question

SteveB · 2007-10-31T04:48:58+00:00

I'm new here, but from the group name, it seems to be the place for this.We recently bought a home in rural Southern Utah. Zone 10. It is basically sand dunes on top of lava caps and caliche.Our back yard is a rolling sand dune. We got the irrigation water system working this past summer, and what a mistake! I now have lots and lots of cockleburs. Little spiky spheres about 1/4" in diameter. I went out and sprayed Roundup on them and the other weeds and grasses I wanted to kill, but it only killed about half of them. I took a large propane weed burner to the rest of them. Some burned down, but some still have green centers that lived.I have since removed all Rain Bird Maxi Paw sprinklers. I have sprayed with Roundup, and got the big concentrate bottle so I can spray more during this winter. At the end, I will burn it again, and have my BIL come in with his tractor rototiller to turn it over so I can rake out the roots. Maybe some of the eight billion cockleburs will bury in the soil and not germinate due to the Roundup.Is this the logical approach? Suggestions which would be easier or better.When finished, we'll coutour the yard, place retaining wall, reinstall the sprinklers, and start from scratch. I just don't want a lot of weeds sprouting through the new grass.It's probably going to be constant war trying to keep the windblown seeds and bird borne seeds from getting hold in the new grass.Steve

Oct 31, 2007 22 Replies

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jthread 18 years ago

tee hee

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jthread 18 years ago

good argument. killfile me. please. it's my pleasure.

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Eggs Zachtly 18 years ago

Nah. No need.

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