I had my new lawn planted last fall. I live in South Dakota, so the lawn
didn't get quite long enough for the first last mowing before it got cold.

I am wondering what I should do to the lawn this spring. Should I put some
type of starter fertilizer on it now and then a crab grass preventer on it
by the end of May or can I put the crab grass preventer on it now?

Also, I had a couple of patches of brome grass that the roundup didn't quite
kill last fall. Is there anything that I can spray on this that will kill
the brome but not kill the blue grass?

Thanks

Doug

"Doug Powers" wrote:
I had my new lawn planted last fall. I live in South Dakota, so the
lawn didn't get quite long enough for the first last mowing before it got
cold.

I am wondering what I should do to the lawn this spring. Should I put
some type of starter fertilizer on it now and then a crab grass preventer
on it by the end of May or can I put the crab grass preventer on it now?

Yes, I'd put starter food down now,and then a pre-emergent/food down in mid
may. This will allow the seedlings to be mature enough to handle the pre-E.

Also, I had a couple of patches of brome grass that the roundup didn't
quite kill last fall. Is there anything that I can spray on this that
will kill the brome but not kill the blue grass?

Can you spot treat them again with roundup? Wait until they are growing.

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