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Has anyone had luck getting rid of quackgrass without chemicals?

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killing quackgrass without chemicals and just cultural practices

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#1 ·
I have a bunch of desirable turf and quackgrass here and there in spots, i have a dog so chemicals are not really an option. i have been cutting everyday and somewhat low, it seems to slowly be dieing off as i can see alot of browing stems. Ive also been fertilizing and irrigating regularly. Has anyone had luck getting rid of quackgrass without chemicals?
 
#3 ·
I brought in some “dirt” few years ago to fill in some sunken areas. Of course it came with plenty of weeds. Quack Grass was one of them.
What seem to work in the end is
Making sure my lawn had enough water. Started mowing at 3.5” and isolated Glysophate application.
I basically used the cotton glove over a rubber glove. Wet the cotton glove finger tips and applied to the unwanted plants like that.
Also manually pulled many of them.
Then I got on top of the Pre Emergent applications: No Idea if Pre Emergents are pet friendly ?
 
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I've never seen anyone share such a success. I don't know if it's just the weather or the season, but my quackgrass has really slowed down this past month.

Luckily, a lot of my quack roots in the upper thatch layer and this time of year it's tillered a lot so when I detached, I ripped visually 80% of it out. The game is to keep torturing it until hopefully one day it's energy reserves in its rhizomes deplete. Or maybe that's just my wishful thinking.

Also I can share that Tnex impacts quack the same as KBG so if nothing else, it makes your fresh cut look last a few days longer