| Is Your Lawn Care Company Helping You With | | | | summer, leaving large patches of dead looking |
| QuackGrass? | | | | turf in your lawn. |
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| If you have any thin areas of your lawn, this | | | | It grows well everywhere in the United States |
| light green grass may try to take over your | | | | except the extreme South, and is known by |
| lawn. | | | | various names: twitch, dog grass, quitch |
| | | | grass, quick grass, couch grass. Its |
| So, its grass right? What is the problem | | | | scientific name is Elymus repens. Quackgrass |
| then? | | | | is well known as an invasive weed because it |
| | | | is so difficult to remove. |
| The problem is that it is rough, coarse, and | | | | |
| grows more than 5 feet in a single season. | | | | Here is a quick overview of how to remove it: |
| That means it not only looks ugly, but it is | | | | |
| very uncomfortable for anyone walking without | | | | -Dig deep into the ground, removing as much |
| shoes, attempting to have a picnic, or just | | | | of the grass as possible (including all |
| rough-housing on the lawn. | | | | roots). |
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| I would encourage you to ask your lawn care | | | | -Lay down cardboard on any area where the |
| company what they are doing about the | | | | grass was removed. |
| possibility of "Quackgrass" taking over the | | | | |
| thinner areas of your lawn. | | | | -Lay down woodchips on top of the cardboard |
| | | | (make sure the layer of woodchips is 2 or 3 |
| Here is some useful information about | | | | inches thick). |
| quackgrass: | | | | |
| | | | If you are still having difficulty with |
| It is characterized by very coarse, green | | | | quackgrass coming back, contact your local |
| blue-green blades. Often it shoots up flower | | | | lawn care company. Here at Natural Way Lawn |
| spikes that look a bit like wheat. In the | | | | Care in Michigan we have special methods for |
| spring and fall it grows quickly, and may not | | | | ridding your lawn of quack grass once and for |
| even be noticed at first. However, it becomes | | | | all. |
| very unsightly when it turns brown in the | | | | |