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Marysville WA  Sshadai May 29, 2018 8:58 PM CST |
Hello and thank you for looking at this post! So I have a fairly new yard that I installed a few years back. Just got back from a deployment and now its infested with weeds. I need to know how to kill these but I need to know what they are first. Please take a look at this photo   |
Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost    DaisyI May 29, 2018 9:16 PM CST |
 You have a lot of clover and a few wild geraniums. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost President: Orchid Society of Northern Nevada Webmaster: osnnv.org |
Name: June Rosemont, Ont. (Zone 4a)             JuneOntario May 30, 2018 7:03 AM CST |
| Clover is beneficial in that its roots fix nitrogen in the soil and its flowers feed honeybees. I would just mow the grass and leave it in the lawn. If it's in the flowerbeds, dig it out. The geranium, if you don't like it where it is, should be fairly easy to pull up before it flowers and seeds itself. |
Name: Kyle Middle TN (Zone 7a)           quercusnut May 30, 2018 7:46 AM CST |
| I like clover in my lawn. It's the only broadleaf I allow. The rest of the weeds I kill with a broadleaf weedkiller you can get pretty cheap at Walmart, Lowes or HD. |
Name: Lin Vosbury Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)           plantladylin May 30, 2018 7:57 AM CST |
| I agree, it appears you have both Trifolium (Clover) and Geranium in your lawn. The clover might be Hop Trefoil (Trifolium campestre) or Alsike Clover (Trifolium hybridum) but there are probably a few others native in your state as well. Carolina Cranesbill (Geranium carolinianum) is a native but the leaves don't look quite right to my eyes for that one. Another possibility and also a Washington native is Sticky Geranium (Geranium viscosissimum) but again, there may be a few others native to Washington and the Pacific Northwest area of the country. Washington State Wildflowers page: https://uswildflowers.com/wfqu... ~ I'm an old gal who still loves playing in the dirt! ~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot! |
Name: Kyle Middle TN (Zone 7a) quercusnut May 30, 2018 8:20 AM CST |
| To clarify, I only allow white or Dutch clover -- Trifolium repens. |
Name: Rj Just S of the twin cities of M (Zone 4b)  crawgarden May 30, 2018 8:21 AM CST |
| Welcome back from deployment and thanks! Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. |
Name: Kyle Middle TN (Zone 7a) quercusnut May 30, 2018 9:46 AM CST |
crawgarden said:Welcome back from deployment and thanks! Yes. I also thank you for your service.  |
Name: Mindi Hammerstone Tracy, CA (Zone 9b) MindiHammerstone May 30, 2018 9:53 AM CST |
| Yes, thank you for your service!! 😀 Mindi |
Name: Lin Vosbury Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a) plantladylin May 30, 2018 10:57 AM CST |
| @Sshadai, I'll add my thanks too! GO NAVY! I come from a long line of Navy (dad, granddad, husband, niece, nephew and also a cousin) but just in case your service is with a different branch, I will also say thank you and ... GO ARMY! GO AIR FORCE! GO MARINES! GO COAST GUARD! GO MERCHANT MARINES! ~ I'm an old gal who still loves playing in the dirt! ~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot! |
Marysville WA Sshadai May 31, 2018 6:01 PM CST |
| Thank you everyone! Awesome responses and it is appreciated. Tomorrow I receive some of this for the clover. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000HCRM4S And this to help the soil www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GBVCJ1U Looks like I need to fertilize way more often then I have been. Now that I'm home I can baby sit the lawn. Oh and GO NAVY! |
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