Finding rescuegrass in your Tarrant County lawn indicates potential underlying issues with soil health and thin turf. When you hire a professional weed control service, you can stop this invasive grass in its tracks and prevent significant lawn damage. Without this expert treatment from lawn care specialists, rescuegrass spreads rapidly by outcompeting healthy turf for nutrients and water. Let’s look at how to identify the weed, and the methods professionals use to control it.
What Is Rescuegrass?
Rescuegrass is a perennial weed that can take over a lawn. It isn’t always easy to identify grassy weeds. That’s because these invaders, like rescuegrass, can look a lot like turf. However, when you take a closer look you’ll begin to notice several differences. It grows in bunches, interrupting the smooth uniformity of healthy turf. You’ll recognize it from its compressed sheath, which actually forms a tube that encloses the stem.
The blades are slightly hairy and flat. Although it’s a common weed throughout much of the contiguous 48 states, it seems to be especially prevalent in Texas. Many other locales don’t treat rescuegrass as a weed, but that’s not true in Texas, where we regard it as a serious problem. In Texas, rescuegrass thrives during the winter season—that’s because the summer heat is simply too much for it. Accordingly, as spring turns to summer you may start to notice parts of your lawn die off. Some homeowners mistakenly think their lawn is dying, so they increase both watering and fertilization. This is good for the rest of your grass, but if the dying patches are actually rescuegrass, more water and fertilizer will not turn those brown spots green.
Best Techniques for Controlling Rescuegrass
As providers of professional lawn maintenance services, Green Top Lawn Care is qualified to keep rescuegrass out of your lawn. We use several different treatment methods to control the situation. If it’s September, then an application of pre-emergent herbicide can help affected areas of your lawn. This is the perfect timing for this application, as the rescuegrass is just starting to become active again after its summer dormancy.
Using good mowing techniques is also essential to control rescuegrass in Texas. When the lawn is mowed regularly, the seed heads on rescuegrass are routinely removed, which means it doesn’t have a chance to reproduce. You’ll start to see an improvement in the health of your lawn almost right away, and next winter, you’ll notice that things are looking better than ever as you continue to see less rescuegrass in your lawn.
Contact Us for Expert Weed Control Services in North Texas
When your North Texas lawn needs to be saved from rescuegrass, then trust Green Top Lawn Care. We help property owners throughout the area with top-rated weed control treatments. And after we’ve put our know-how and proven techniques to work on your lawn, you’ll start seeing the difference. Getting to a weed-free lawn begins as easily as contacting us for a free quote or calling (817) 684-4044 today.
