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Dichondra patch in lawn: please provide steps to eliminate it! #867298
Asked May 06, 2024, 5:19 PM EDT
Montgomery County Maryland
Expert Response
If too bothersome and you want to remove them, your only options may be to physically dig them out (filling-in the bare areas with sod, or seed if you can wait to do that in late summer or early autumn) or to use an organic herbicide. Montgomery County lawn pesticide restrictions likely prohibit the use of a systemic root-killing product like glyphosate, though this will depend on whether you live in the except municipality or not. Organic herbicides will only kill the foliage, so repeated applications would be needed to gradually weaken the plant by forcing regrowth that uses-up root energy stores. Even so, such sprays tend to be non-selective enough that they might also injure any turfgrass contacted by the spray.
Miri