Question
Has anyone come up with a way of getting rid (permanently) of wiregrass?  It is taking over, right now is still brown and brittle and I can see the earth below.
I need help before it takes over the whole lawn.

Answer
'Wiregrass' aka 'Bermuda Grass' aka "Devilgrass'?

'Cynodon dactylon'?

This stuff:

www.blueplanetbiomes.org/bermuda_grass.htm

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Sometimes, all we can do is pray.

Like I told someone long ago, you have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting rid of this stuff.  As they write at Virginia Tech, Wiregrass 'has both rhizomes and stolons and is capable of forming a turf or mat of fine leaves.'

Not to be confused with the Warm Season people's choice Bermudagrass.  The creeping, Cynodon Weed from Africa is 'a very troublesome and hard-to-control Weed' found growing uninvited in Lawns 'as far north as southern New Jersey.'  Wikipedia points out, 'The name Bermuda Grass derives from its abundance as an invasive species on Bermuda; it does not occur naturally there.'

This plant gives new meaning to the word INVASIVE.

AllAllergy says the mind boggling number of Seeds is why:

'The Seeds, like the flowers, are tiny, with as many as 4.4 million seeds in one kilogram.'

See their website:

www.allallergy.net/fapaidfind.cfm?cdeoc=141

4.4 MILLION in a single kilogram.

'Lawncare Professionals' invoke use of some mean, ugly chemicals: Bromacil, Clethodim, Fluazifop-P-butyl, Glyphosate, Imazapyr which may or may not be legal in your state.  This chemical stuff will probably vaporize your other lawn Grasses along with the microbes in the Soil.  Expose yourself to them and they might even wipe out YOU.

Still, we do not to date yet have a definitive eraser to apply for this awful weed.  You can't even smoke it out -- it survives fire.

But...

If you live in a VERY Sunny, VERY hot region, solarization will eliminate it.  It takes time, probably all Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, to work reliably.  By fall you'll have Wiregrass-free soil ready to amend and seed.  Sorry, but it's the only way I know of right now to eliminate, reliably, this noxious plant.

How to Solarize:

Lay a flat thick black or plastic sheet under the area you want to save, watering it well first so that you germinate any dormant seeds.  Then weight down the area to keep the plastic down.  Done right, you can say Adios to Wiregrass.  Watch for subsequent Seeds and remove IMMEDIATELY if you recognize any.

Still, Science is racing to find a cure for Wiregrass at major university centers around the world.  They know there's lots of money to be the first one who introduces a good, strong Wiregrass solution.  We'll see what turns up this year.  Thanks for writing.