Question
How do you rid a Bermuda lawn of Dallis grass weeds organically?  Everything I put on it doesn't seem to work.  I've tried the sugar and the Bermuda is green up nicely but the Dallis grass greens up too!!!

I also am writing to get info on your organic pests control for my house.  Thanks so much.

Alice P.

Answer
Hi Alice;
I hear of Dallis grass all the time as a lawn grass.
What we call Dallis grass here, is a weed, but i am wondering if they are a different plant or are they both the same.
If they are one and the same, then yep, the sugar ould inprove it too.
In that case, the only way you are going to get it out is to pull it up till it is all gone.
Anything that will likk one type of grass will kill ALL grasses, so there is nothing you can put on it, chemical or organic that will kill it and not kill the burmuda.
How long has it been since you used the sugar.
It doesn't kill anything, it just makes the soil rich enough that weeds don't thrive, and they start tio die out.
ever couple of mowings, you should see ferew weeds.
You can speed it up, if your soil was really not in great shape before, by applying the sugar again.
that will just give more nutrients to the beneficial microbes. I guess maybe it makes then reproduce more.
You can use the sugar as often as you want. If you used it every day, it wouldn't harm your grass, it would just waste sugar.
That is another benefit of organics, you don't run the risk of burning if you get too much sugar or dry molasses in one spot, like you do with fertilizer.Ask a local nurseryman if what you have is a weed or another type of grass.
Dig one clump of it up to take to show them.
If it is a weed, the rich soil will eventually get rid of it.
Even if the organics is going to work, the more you take out by pulling it up or digging it up, will make your lawn look better this year.
Apply the sugar abain in the fall, and fewer weeds will come up next spring, and fewer each year till you see none.
Charlotte