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Hi, I'm Harold Enger from Spring-Green Lawn Care, and I want to talk to you about a very
problematic weed in a lot of lawns and that's a weed known as Bent Grass, or sometimes referred
to as Creeping Bent Grass. Now, you can see these patches of sort of
lighter blue-ish green grass. It's growing very dense, very thick. And, one of the reasons
why this isn't a good grass for a home lawn is that it doesn't match the other grasses
that you have in here. It's very susceptible to a lot of different diseases. If you have
it in this particular lawn, which is a Tall Fescue Lawn, then it should be mowed at four
inches. Letting bent grass grow up that high, it just doesn't look good. It doesn't grow
that high. So, it falls over and makes a very unattractive area of your lawn.
So, this is a big problem in a lot of lawns. Now, how did it get here? Well, it can come
in through the air. Birds can drop a runner. The one thing about Bent Grass is that it
reproduces by what are called Stolons. And, these are above the ground root systems. And,
it's called Creeping Bent Grass because as it creeps out here, it will produce roots
and roots and roots, and continue to creep out into the lawn. So, just this one little
piece of grass that falls into a lawn could take root and become a problem.
Now, if you look behind me, you can see that there's a golf course out here that has bent
grass in the greens, the tees and the fairway. Well, is that how this could have gotten here?
Sure. It's a very good possibility that that's how this particular grass ended up in this
lawn because we're right next to the golf course here. But, you can find it in many
lawns, even ones that are not close to a golf course.
So, what do you do for it? Well, you have to use certain materials called Total Kills
that will kill everything in this area to get rid of it. Or, there is another product
that we can use nowadays that will control bent grass on a regular basis in a home lawn.
So, for more information on controlling Bent Grass in your lawn, contact your neighborhood
lawn care professional at Spring-Green. Or, you can visit my Ask the Expert blog at Spring-Green.com.