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Old 06-03-2006, 07:58 PM
klaaar klaaar is offline
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Interesting take, GLAN.

Would you be saying it is advisable to apply pre ems onto a 900 square foot bare spot in the middle of a lawn in early spring, in order to prevent vegetation from emerging? Would this be done with the expectation that turfgrass seeding would not be done for a month or more, and with the concession that the eventual seeding would be less than successful?

That would be a tactic I had not considered. It may have its merits, especially when soil disturbance and seeding for some reason must wait for weeks on end. But my instinctual reaction to massive dead areas of lawn has always been to establish turfgrass ASAP. A good stand of turf is the goal, is it not? The best weed control is thick, uninterrupted, healthy turf, no?

If there's time to apply pre ems, is there not time to instead sow seed?
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