💚 Autumn Lawn Care Megathread & ask Lawn Solutions Australia anything! 💚

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[u/woofydb]

This stuff appears in winter and dies in summer and has a fine blade. I thought it was winter grass but not sure but want to kill it without killing the surrounding grass and stop it coming back each yr if possible

https://preview.redd.it/o0uypb5qtbyc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9de80a0d7deeb1cb1f2a9ab2edc63f767a318da4

[u/LawnSolutionsAu → u/woofydb]

Hi u/woofydb, it looks like you have some perenial rye grass growing there. Do you know what type of grass the main lawn is?

[u/woofydb → u/LawnSolutionsAu]

So the main grass was couch. It didn’t go well in summer and the broader leaf one near the concrete I started transplanting as it came into our back section from the neighbors and survived well. So I put some out the front. This thin stuff grows down the side of my house as well where I never put it. It dies in summer and comes back about now

[u/LawnSolutionsAu → u/woofydb]

Do you know what type of grass the broader leaf grass is?

Unfortunatly there isn't many herbicide options when it comes to removing rye grass that are suitable for domestic use. However you can look at using something like Munns Winter Grass Killer which is not safe for use on rye grass, but is safe for most common warm season grasses like couch, kikuyu and buffalo. This might not fully remove it, but it can help make the rye grass sick.

[u/woofydb → u/LawnSolutionsAu]

I have absolutely no idea what the broader one is. I don’t think it’s buffalo as it’s come from a 60s house so something very old school. It’s not kikuyu either.