How do I get rid of alfalfa in the yard

[bigtiller]

Last spring the neighbor was cleaning out his horse barn and spreading it in the field next to me. I decided if I was going to smell it I might as well have some in my new wind break around the spruce trees and in the garden. Well now I have alfalfa in the yard. How do I kill it with out killing all the bluegrass? I tried Trimec Classic over the area once last fall but it did not seam to help much.

 

[WTA]

24D will sure kill it. It doesn't harm my bermuda, rye, wheat or corn at all. You will need to check the label for bluegrass but my suspicion is it will be safe.
It likes to be sprayed when it's hot out. I mean in the summer time. It won't do a thing in the fall. Just keep t away from your trees and anything else with broadleaves that you want to keep.

 

[charlz]

WTA do you spray your corn at the 'normal' rate? I was reading the label the other day and the rate they give seems so low it wouldn't kill the weeds!

 

[bigtiller]

24D will sure kill it. It doesn't harm my bermuda, rye, wheat or corn at all. You will need to check the label for bluegrass but my suspicion is it will be safe.
It likes to be sprayed when it's hot out. I mean in the summer time. It won't do a thing in the fall. Just keep t away from your trees and anything else with broadleaves that you want to keep.

I think Trimec is mostly 2-4-D with some other stuff for tuffer broadleaf coverage. It does not harm my grass because I have used it on creaping charlie. One guy told me I will have to use Round-up to get rid of it.

 

[WarrenF]

Are you sure it is Alfalfa or is it Clover. Some broadleaf in a lawn is tough to kill. I HAD a lawn with a lot of Clover and Morning Glory in it. I bought a product that is labeled Spurge Out. It got both of them, and including some wild violet that I have been unable to kill no matter what type of weather I have sprayed in and what kind of super sticky spreader I used.

24D, will get most broadleaf....good luck.

 

[WTA]

I usually only spray at a half rate in my fields unless I have a lot of goat heads. Then it's a double rate. Those things are so bad on my neighbors place that you can't even drive a truck with radials across his field without getting a flat.

The 24D I get is the strong stuff 46%. I usually use 2 quarts of it in my 100 gallon spray tank and it gets almost 3 acres. By the end of the day everything out there with broadleaves is wilted.

 

[charlz]

I usually only spray at a half rate in my fields unless I have a lot of goat heads. Then it's a double rate. Those things are so bad on my neighbors place that you can't even drive a truck with radials across his field without getting a flat.

I hate those things!

The 24D I get is the strong stuff 46%. I usually use 2 quarts of it in my 100 gallon spray tank and it gets almost 3 acres. By the end of the day everything out there with broadleaves is wilted.

Thanks, I am going to try it on my corn this year.

 

[Luremaker]

I usually only spray at a half rate in my fields unless I have a lot of goat heads. Then it's a double rate. Those things are so bad on my neighbors place that you can't even drive a truck with radials across his field without getting a flat. ...

If you don't mind me asking. What are goat heads? Never heard of those before. Steve

 

[charlz]

If you don't mind me asking. What are goat heads? Never heard of those before. Steve

Puncture vine, nasty little seed pods that easily put holes in most any tire:

Tribulus terrestris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The seeds can stay viable in the soil for 5+ years. Around here they start coming up in the 2nd week of June so thats the time to start spraying, pulling etc. before they set seeds.

Once attached to a tire you can infest a whole county in short order.

 

[Luremaker]

Puncture vine, nasty little seed pods that easily put holes in most any tire:

Tribulus terrestris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The seeds can stay viable in the soil for 5+ years. Around here they start coming up in the 2nd week of June so thats the time to start spraying, pulling etc. before they set seeds.

Once attached to a tire you can infest a whole county in short order.

Boy do those look nasty. I thought we had it bad with all the Canadian Thistles around here.