Horticulture Hotline 02/02/2026
By Bill Lamson-Scribner
The perfect snow in the Lowcountry! Here one day and gone
the next!
After a snow event, the winter weeds really stand out in the
grass and should be managed before the go into the reproductive stage of their
life cycle when they are harder to kill and they are producing more plants for
you to manage the following year.
Weed Free Zone (liquid), Vexis (granular) and Dollar Weed
Control (granular) are three great products for now. Atrazine (granular or
liquid) containing products also are available. These products control weeds in
lawn areas. Read the label closely before you decide on a product because they
are all different and have certain cautions that you would want to be aware of
before using.
Weed Free Zone is a liquid workhorse, controlling many weeds.
Aster (White Heath And White Prairie), Bedstraw, Beggarweed (Creeping),
Bindweed, Black Medic, Broadleaf Plantain, Buckhorn Plantain, Bull Thistle,
Burclover, Burdock, Common Buttercup, Creeping Carpetweed, Chickweed, Common
Chicory, Cinquefoil, Clover, Compassplant, Curly Dock, Dandelion, Dayflower,
Deadnettle Dock Dogfennel English Daisy False Dandelion (*Spotted Catsear And
Common Catsear) Field Bindweed (*Morningglory And Creeping Jenny) Field
Oxeye-daisy (*Creeping Oxeye) Filaree, Whitestem And Redstem Florida Betony
Florida Pusley Ground Ivy (*Creeping Charlie) Groundsel Hawkweed Healall Henbit
Innocence (Blue-eyed Mary) Lambsquarters Lawn Burweed Lespedeza, Common Mallow,
Common Matchweed Mouseear Chickweed Old World Diamond Flower Oxalis (*Yellow
Woodsorrel And Creeping Woodsorrel) Parsley-piert Pennsylvania Smartweed
Pennywort (*Dollarweed) Pepperweed Pigweed Pineappleweed Plantain Poison Ivy
Poison Oak Prostrate Knotweed (*Knotweed) Puncturevine Purple Cudweed Purslane
Ragweed Redweed Red Sorrel (*Sheep Sorrel) Shepherdspurse Spotted Spurge Spurge
Thistle Veronica (*Corn Speedwell) Virginia Buttonweed White Clover (*Dutch
Clover, Honeysuckle Clover, White Trefoil And Purplewort) Wild Carrot Wild
Garlic Wild Geranium Wild Lettuce Wild Mustard Wild Onion Wild Strawberry Wild
Violet Yarrow Yellow Rocket. Read the label before applying!
Dollar Weed Control should not be used on dormant
centipede grass; however, if you do not have centipede, it is labelled to
kill some hard to control weeds - Controls: Chickweed, Clover (Hop, Red &
White), Dandelion, Dollar Weed, English Lawn Daisy, False Dandelion, Florida
Betony, Ground Ivy, Lespedeza, Black Medic, Parsley-Piert, Broad leaf Plantain,
Buckhorn Plantain, and Virginia Buttonweed. This centipede grass restriction
illustrates why you should always read and follow product labels.
Vexis is a great newer product that controls hard to kill
weeds and nutsedges. Vexis has an interesting (to me – maybe not to many
others) statement on it’s label. To avoid injury to improved varieties of
St. Augustinegrass or Centipedegrass, apply when night-time temperatures are
above 50°F for 7 consecutive nights. As you can see, Vexis controls some
tuff weeds. Sedges, Kyllinga, and Rushes (including ALS resistant annual
sedges): Yellow Nutsedge, Purple Nutsedge, Annual Nutsedge, Green Kyllinga,
False Green Kyllinga, Cockscomb Kyllinga, Annual Kyllinga, Path Rush. Broadleaf
Weeds: Buckhorn Plantain, Common Chickweed, Dollarweed (Pennywort), False
Dandelion, Florida Betony, Ground Ivy (Creeping Charlie), Hairy Bittercress,
Henbit, Lawn Burweed, Purple Deadnettle, Rough Fleabane, Virginia Buttonweed,
Wild Garlic, Wild Onion. Reentry
Statement: Do not enter or allow people (or pets) to enter the treated area
until dust has settled. Nice not to have to water in product before reentry
to area. Great product! As always, read and follow the product label.
Get ahead of small-seeded summer annual weeds with a
preemergent herbicide in about two weeks.
With “spreader season” beginning make sure your spreader is
ready for action before you put product in the hopper because spreaders are
known to rust over the winter.
The cold weather has forced many rodents to seek refuge
under and inside many homes in the Lowcountry. To avoid smelling the dead
varmint, snap traps and glue boards are the way to go. Baits are very
effective; however, you might have to smell a dead animal for a few days if
they die in a crawl space or wall void.
Bill Lamson-Scribner
can be reached during the week at Possum’s Landscape and Pest Control Supply.
Possum’s has three locations
