The benefits of crabgrass control are based around keeping your lawn green, healthy, and looking good for the spring, summer, and fall seasons. In essence, when crabgrass starts to grow within your lawn, it must be taken care of immediately. Otherwise, the crabgrass will not only make your lawn look half dead and unhealthy, it will also spread incredibly quickly. Before you know it, large sections of your lawn will be infested with it. From that point it doesn’t take long for the crabgrass to completely take over the entire ecosystem.
What Is Crabgrass?
Crabgrass is a grass like weed that can basically grow everywhere. Unfortunately, it grows extremely fast, and looks awful in your lawn. This nuisance grows low to the ground in a crab like shape. Crabgrass is actually an annual weed. That means it germinates during the spring, appears throughout the growing season, drops its seeds for the next seasons, and dies when the ground freezes. The crabgrass seeds germinate the following spring, and the process starts all over again.
How Is Crabgrass Controlled?
A pre-emergence herbicide, otherwise known as a crabgrass preventer controls this nasty weed by stopping the seeds from germinating and spreading. That means you should have a crabgrass preventer applied to your lawn in the early spring before the seeds actually have an opportunity to germinate. The bottom line is that once the crabgrass weed germinates, the crabgrass preventer will not have any effect. That means crabgrass will grow out of control. It’s far easier to prevent crabgrass compared to controlling the weed once it starts to grow.
You may need multiple applications of post-emergent crabgrass control throughout the growing season in order to control the already matured crabgrass plant. Luckily, in the fall once soil temperatures dip below 56 degrees and we get our first frost, the crabgrass will start to die off on its own. It will start off by turning a purplish color and then It will leave brown skeletal remains behind and decompose on its own.
What Happens If You Fail To Control The Crabgrass?
If you fail to control the crabgrass on an annual basis, more and more crabgrass plants will germinate and take up a significant portion of your lawn. There may be some turf remaining, however, if your lawn is mostly made up of crabgrass, you will need to either reseed or install sod.
If you’re interested in getting more information about the benefits of crabgrass control at your property in Marlborough, MA, or would like to schedule an initial consultation please contact The Veron Company today. We will provide you with the best advice about how to properly take care of your landscaping on a year-round basis. Hiring a professional will go a long way in helping you avoid mistakes that waste a great deal of time and money. In addition, we have the ability to properly evaluate your property and truly understand the steps that it takes to complete the project on time and on budget.
Please contact The Veron Company today with any and all questions about our vast array of home services, and your landscape design needs. We have a full crew of trained and experienced professionals to handle the job for you. Our company has been concentrating on maximizing your home’s potential since 1982.
