Green T Lawn Care Can Help Prevent and Control Crabgrass

May 9, 2013 - PRLog -- The lawn care season is really picking up momentum and a huge part of maintaining a healthy lawn is preventing weed growth.  Weeds can be destructive to a lawn and one of the most common weeds that reappear year after year is crabgrass.  Crabgrass has a long germination period in which it can produce up to 150,000 seeds per season and it is very difficult to control once it has sprouted in a lawn.  Green T Lawn Care (http://greenteelawncare.com/) provides crabgrass prevention and control services as part of their lawn care program in mid spring.  Their pre-emergent will prevent crabgrass from growing and establishing itself in the lawn’s root system.  

         In order to effectively control crabgrass, it is important to be able to correctly identify (http://greenteelawncare.com/index.php/crabgrass-identification/) it.  Crabgrass has a distinct structure with stems that spread parallel to the ground and broad, flat blades that point upwards.  Its flowers are thin purple, finger-like spires between 4 and 6 inches in length and are the most recognizable features of the plant.  Other distinct features of crabgrass include a divided collar where the leaf connects to the stem and rolled leaf buds with a spiral cross section.  Crabgrass grows in empty space and dirt spots and it expands outward, killing the lawn around it and growing in its place.  It can grow anytime after late spring and dies off in the fall since it is an annual plant.

         The best ways to prevent crabgrass from growing are to maintain a healthy lawn and use a preventative pre-emergent to limit germination.  Healthy lawns have strong, thick root systems, achieved with effective watering and fertilization that can help limit the growth of crabgrass.  Crabgrass germination can be limited even further with Green T’s pre-emergent application (http://greenteelawncare.com/index.php/crabgrass-prevention/).  This pre-emergent is a spread-on, granular-based product that limits crabgrass germination by forming a barrier in the soil.  Green T applies their pre-emergent in the mid-spring because it is early enough in the season to stop crabgrass germination but late enough so it does not interrupt grass seed germination.  Crabgrass generally sprouts in May or when the soil temperature reaches 60 degrees for 3-5 days which makes April and May the best months for pre-emergent applications.

         We are at an important point of the lawn care season when the crabgrass is beginning to germinate and with proper lawn maintenance and Green T’s crabgrass pre-emergent, it is possible to prevent it from germinating.  Green T’s lawn care program is designed to promote a healthy root system with fertilization and weed control applications and their crabgrass pre-emergent can help keep lawns free of crabgrass for the entire season.  Contact Green T Lawn Care to learn more about their program and how their crabgrass pre-emergent can protect your lawn.