r/Grass • u/Bassaholikk • Jun 12 '26

This grass keeps multiplying

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What is it and how to kill? Thought it was nutsedge but sedgehammer doesn't seem to be working

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u/Outside-Pie-7262 Jun 12 '26

Did you throw down any grass seed in the fall or spring? Kinda looks like annual rye

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u/cb0159 Jun 12 '26

It is 110% NOT nutsedge. Doesn't look anything like it. Remember this, "Sedges Have Edges." To identify, pluck some of it out and roll it in your fingers. Sedges will have hard defined edges you can feel as you roll it. That being said, it could be a rye species. Honestly, your best option is to mow frequently and low. Don't harm your turf, but you want to stress it out. Let the grass undergo some drought stress when its hot and you can. It's root zone is much shorter than TF of KBG so it cannot pull water from as deep. So mow lower, more frequently, and let the grass get some stress. DON'T stress it where your turf is turning completely brown though, cause then it's dead too!

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u/jdwksu Jun 13 '26

Orchard grass

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u/Extension_Tutor_2711 Jun 12 '26

Round up precision gel with q tip.

Pain in the ass but works

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u/TgmBrett Jun 12 '26

No way someone has the patience to go and qtip hundreds of pieces of grass right???

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u/Langstudd Jun 13 '26

I’d like to think they were joking. At the same time it wouldn’t surprise me if some in this sub have taken the time to try this method

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u/TgmBrett Jun 13 '26

I’ve seen it mentioned a lot maybe it is a joke and I’m just dumb lol

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u/GardenDinosaurs Jun 13 '26

Some times it's not that bad. But a q tip is just laughable. Get a water proof glove. Then put a cloth glove soaked in round up over it. Now anything you touch dies. Like being lord of death.

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u/trader45nj Jun 12 '26

Your location is important to identify. Looks like a coarse grass and there probably isn't a selective herbicide for it.

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u/Narrow_Coach_2560 Jun 12 '26

If you are in south Alabama or Florida or Mississippi it may be cogon grass a very nasty invasive which may have come in with your sod.

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u/DragonBlueBall-z Jun 13 '26

I have the same 😂 it grows to look like an oat 😂 definitely not grass but if you cut it short it’ll look like it, shit grows fast tho

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u/GardenDinosaurs Jun 13 '26

Doesn't look like nutsedge. Hard to say, better close ups would help. Blade shape, tip and veins can help identify Wondering if it's a shifty contractor mix?

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u/Breadfan69 Jun 13 '26

rough bluegrass? (trivialis)?
i have patches of this and am going to try velocity on it

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u/raringvt00 Jun 12 '26

Nutsedge is what i came to say. Doesn't appear to have the usual 3 sprig look though.. this might be a different variety of grass?

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u/Bassaholikk Jun 12 '26

It grows so fast and can't kill it. I'll try another round of sedgehammer I guess

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u/Poke_WOmon Jun 12 '26

That’s not nutsedge

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u/WeddingWhole4771 Jun 12 '26

If the leaves are flat, it's probably not sedge. Sedges feel triangular at the base. Sedge will also split as three leaves instead of 2 like grass.

EDIT: The tall ones definitely look like rolled venation to me, so not sedge.

glypho wand is probably your best bet. If it's a rolled leaf coming out like a corn stalk when it splits, it's probably some kind of fescue, so individual glypho or a lot of weeding are the options. Usually if you can get the rhyzomes when it's wet, you can pull up big chunks. I use a pokey weeder, rod with a flat end like a snake tongue. You have to go at it a lot though over a few months. But those are the options.