Questioni was looking through a search of how to get rid of nutsedge. which i am having a problem with over several yrs now. and i tried pulling it out with no luck. and it seems it is spreading. so it's time to try something different.
this past spring i spread corn glutten meal on my yard to help with crabgrass which did not work and it gets very expensive to apply at the rate they suggest. so i am now looking at applying sugar.
because of the area i have to cover with sugar and the recommended rate of 4 lbs per 1000 squares. i was thinking of using a lawn spreader. of which i have a scotts rotary spreader called easy 2000. so my question is can this rotary spreader work and at what rate should i set the spreader to apply the sugar?
Answer Nutsedge was once featured in the "Guiness Book" because it is the one, single weed that is found in more places on earth than any other weed. I spent a large part of 21 years trying to control nutsedge on sugar cane plantations. So forgive me if I am skeptical about any non-chemical method of controlling nutsedge (Cyperus spp.). When you have got the time and patience to do it, try to dig up a nutsedge plant. You will find a stringy looking "root". Follow that "root" carefully and you will find that it will lead you to another nutsedge plant. If there are only two plants so connected, you have 'yellow' nutsedge. If there are more, you may have any one of a large number of nutsedges. The plants multiply through shoots from the base, spreading (stringy) rhizomes and nuts which are deeply buried.
"A Wisconsin field was reported to have up to 35,200,000 yellow nutsedge tubers per acre" (Ohio Biennial and Perennial Weed Guide)
Do you really want to match sugar of any sort against such survival mechanisms?
