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I have a problem with stickers.soil here is very sandy. Ive tried msma, which we know is a very strong and i feel leary of using this herbicide ..i have dogs and cats not to mention you cant use this stuff around any gardening. So how can i get rid of these stickers ? Bermuda grass is what i have here..HELP ! :)
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Organic control of weeds that are grown up in an existing lawn is pretty tricky because organic herbicides are non-selective, which means they kill everything green that they touch. Here's what I would recommend.First, areas of the lawn that are more weed than grass I would spray with our Natural Weed Control or a commercial strength Vingegar. This will kill grass as well as weeds, and it may take a couple of applications to fully kill the weeds. If you don't want to lose any grass you can skip this step, although remember that the grass will grow back, while the weeds won't.The next thing is to take a blanket and drag it back and forth over the lawn. Strange as this sounds, its an effective way of picking up most of the stickers, which are the seeds that the weeds use to propagate. I'd use an old blanket or sheet that you can then throw away, as the blanket will likely be more covered in stickers than you'll want to pick out.
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