Pucky Freak
Well-known member
For all the lawn care pros out there - I'm curious what the answer is to this one.
Midwest lawns there is often a constant battle with crabgrass. Pick the young plants, time the spring preventer just right, only to have a crop of new crabgrass spring up from some adjacent lot whose owner is not nearly as diligent about batting this choking, ugly plant. Except for this year - there is no crabgrass! It's population is about 99.9% reduced in my IA county compared to all previous years in my memory. We had a very wet April - 9" total rain, and ground was wet the entire month. Was the saturated soil during the crabgrass germination period its doom? No complaints, really. I get a year off.
Midwest lawns there is often a constant battle with crabgrass. Pick the young plants, time the spring preventer just right, only to have a crop of new crabgrass spring up from some adjacent lot whose owner is not nearly as diligent about batting this choking, ugly plant. Except for this year - there is no crabgrass! It's population is about 99.9% reduced in my IA county compared to all previous years in my memory. We had a very wet April - 9" total rain, and ground was wet the entire month. Was the saturated soil during the crabgrass germination period its doom? No complaints, really. I get a year off.
