Question
Bought a home, hired a weed-control service to tend to weeds.  After one year of treatment, more weeds than ever.  I want to try to control the weeds myself, as I am a single mom, in school, with no job.  If my yard has a lot of weeds and the weeds get high enough that they have pods on top and I mow with a mulching mower that has no bag
will I be spreading the seeds and reseeding the yard with weeds?  Or will the mulching mower cut up and destroy the pods ability to reseed?

Answer
Hi Denise,

I'm so sorry to hear that the company didn't do the job very well. Honestly, it's not that difficult to get rid of weeds if you just pay attention as a professional. I doubt they had very diligent servicemen working on your place.

As to your question, whether or not the seed survives is actually not that important. It would be like pouring a few cups of water into a lake. There's already so much weed seed in a typical home lawn soil, that letting new seed go back will not make much of any difference.

Basically, you need to do one of 2 things. Either 1) accept that there will be lots of weeds in the grass, and don't worry too much about it, or b) use a "weed n' feed" product to get the weeds under control.

Keep up the mowing, and apply the weed n feed now, and then again in September. You should start to see a big difference.

Good Luck!

-C.J. Brown