Controlling crabgrass

Crabgrass is a warm season annual grass which grows best in the heat of midsummer when desirable lawn grasses are often semi-dormant and offer little or no competition. Crabgrass over winters as seed, comes up about mid-May or later, and is killed by the first hard frost in fall.

Crabgrass grows best in full sun. It does not grow in shady places. Crabgrass can be controlled in a number of ways, but the best defense against crabgrass is a thick vigorously growing lawn that is mowed no closer than 2 1/2" for cool season grasses.

We provide several options for controlling crabgrass as part of our quality lawn care program. Our special pre-emergent crabgrass control application puts down a special layer of protection that actually prevents crabgrass seeds from germinating. In fact, this application prevents several weed seeds from germinating in the lawn later in the season.

It's important to note that this special application will also prevent grass seed from germinating in the spring as well as the crabgrass seeds. However, for those special instances when you need to plant grass seed in the spring (fall is the ideal time for re-establishing a lawn with new grass) let us know and we have other options available that will also control the crabgrass and allow for grass seed to be planted.

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