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The sedge is worse in some areas than the images I included. I use Sedgehammer for sedge in my centipede lawn, but I have read that it should not be used on flowers and desirable broadleaf plants. That led me to think imazapic is my only option, and that it probably will not help much with the...

Over the years I have mostly gotten control of such things as dogfennel, sedges, etc in my NWSG fields--or at least so I thought. This year I decided to add some wildflower plots. I sprayed glyphosate on those small areas a couple of times last year and planted wildflowers in the spring...

Thanks. I'll spray the glyphosate tomorrow. I think I'll leave one small clump of the mystery grass and mark it with a t-post just to see what it is when it grows. And I think I'll wait to spray the imazapic until things start to green up a little more. I looked at your Facebook page. Pretty...

I was getting set up to spray the glyphosate today when I noticed these patches of an unknown grass. Some more of these clumps are visible in my third image in the original post above. It looks like some sort of bunch grass, but it is showing some green. Any idea what it is and whether it is...

Thanks. I had also planted some wildflowers and forbs, but I decided last year to sacrifice them to try to eliminate a lot of dogfennel and briars with 2-4D and Remedy. If the dog fennel and briars don't come back this spring, then maybe I can overseed with some forbs and wildflowers. I only...

I originally planted big bluestem, little bluestem, and Indian grass, but there is a lot of what looks like bushy bluestem too. I also saw hundreds of sweet gum saplings that I had not noticed before the burn. We spent yesterday pulling them with an extractigator. I'm thinking of going ahead...

We did a prescribed burn on my native grass field today. Would it be a good idea to spray glyphosate on the cool-season grasses and weeds that remained after the burn? The three images below are 1) an area that I had been using as a path through the field 2) a closeup of the same area 3) a...

WOW! I thought you might be exaggerating, but you were right. We finally had the right North wind today to carry the smoke away from the neighbors. I had a professional who has a non-profit that does prescribed burns. He brought three helpers, and it went off without a hitch. I didn't even...

I'm hoping I'm ready for the burn now. Thanks to all the folks on this forum who encouraged me to change my original plans. It sure was fun watching all the bluebirds taking advantage of the fresh mowing. White cattle egrets used to follow my tractor, but I haven't seen them in years. I'm...

I went back and mowed on the inside of all the fences and around the trees. This is a view of the same area as the first image as it's being inspected by Luke. And this is the view from across the fence: Does this look better? I may go ahead and run the disk over it tomorrow. I used my...

Good points. I'm about to get on my mower and try to cut a path inside the fences. Although the grass is a lot less dense under the hardwoods, I think I'll make passes around them and one of the cedars as well. BTW. Novices like me are really lucky we can get good advice from experienced...

I have about a 5-acre NWSG field that I planted about 5 years ago. In preparation for burning it the first time, I did some close mowing with my zero turn mower followed by disking to make a fire lane. In some areas, the grass grows right up the fence line of my high tensile fence. One person...