How To Kill Crabgrass

Unfortunately, no matter how closely and attentively you watch after your garden, wind and birds can bring the seeds of crabgrass to your area. So, you need an instruction on how to kill crabgrass in your field or garden? Then you’re reading the right article.
First of all, do not hesitate with suspending the growth and spreading of crabgrass. It is dangerous to let it grow all the way during summer and only kill crabgrass august, as the consequences for the ecosystem of your field can be devastating. Crabgrass is an aggressor plant, and its neighborhood with general crops and flowers is obviously to be avoided.
Let’s find out how to kill crabgrass in summer, preferably in June. You don’t have to invent super-effective methods for fighting crabgrass, as those methods had been thoroughly tested and approved by our parents and ancestors. Basically, there are 4 ways of how to kill crabgrass naturally, without using chemicals. These are: mowing, pulling out, digging over and covering the soil.

1. Mowing
   Crabgrass doesn’t belong to the lawn-like grasses, which strengthen their root after repeated mowing. With this in mind, you just go for mowing the upper parts of crabgrass as often as you can, and the roots will not be able to receive enough energy for continuing growth. Nevertheless, if it happened that crabgrass occupied the area too close to your cultivated crops or flowers, mowing cannot be among acceptable options. But if the area under crabgrass is just a lawn that you want to keep neat, mowing is really the winning option.

2. Pulling out
   So this manual method is what you fall back too if mowing is not a doable variant. Then again, even if it is a time-hungry operation, the only successful way to fight and kill crabgrass is to pull it out repeatedly, as often as twice a week for a start. Owing to the precision and the fact that you can remove the roots with this method, pulling out may be considered the best way to kill crabgrass. Besides, this can be the only acceptable option in case you are fighting the crabgrass near or between the rows of your cultivated crops. Qualitative pulling out once a week will be the ultimate measure against not only crabgrass, but also against other kinds of unwanted weeds. When you pull out crabgrass, send plants to the compost pit right away. When throwing crabgrass to a pit, lay it down in such a manner that the top part is facing the center of the pit, while the root is facing the outside, and the roots will dry out sooner. Compost is an extremely efficient source of the natural nutrition. And so your enemy can turn to be a favorable plant in future.

3. Digging over
   This method is obviously appropriate for the soil which is being prepared for cultivation and planting. It is best to dig over the soil right before summer, and remove all the unwanted plants at once. But note that the shovel is not always the best tool. The pitchfork can prove to be way more effective than shovel for the task of killing the crabgrass. This is for the reason that the shovel can split the roots into multiple segments, which are a good planting material that will surely grow further.

4. Covering the soil
   The method of covering the soil is the winning option of how to kill crabgrass in lawn and prevent its further growth. It helps keeping your lawns from messing up during long periods. It defends the lawn from unwanted seeds that can be brought with the wind or by any other random natural means. Coverage is usually made of dark tape, which is tightly pressed to the ground. If the quantity of unwanted crabgrass on the lawn is too large, make sure you mow the lawn before covering (see method 1).