How to get rid of creeping grass

[muxx]

I am from southern ohio and we have 2 yards that have a creeping bermuda and one has that zoysia grass. Both clients want it out of there yards. What is the best way to get rid of this? I've heard spraying round up then over seeding like crazy "might" eventually get rid of it. Any help or comments would be great. Thanks

[joshua]

roundup then re seed we have the same problem north of you with bent grass trying to move in to lawns.

[Whitey4]

Bermuda I know nothing about. Zoysia... is like a newly divorced hollywood starrlet or a polititians wife... hard to get rid of. I've seen zoysia runners four inches deep. Leave a root in there... it WILL come back. I've seen this crap run under a 3 foot sidewalk.

If it were my lawn, I'd kill it twice, maybe three times. And while I don't think tilling is wise in most cases, I'd do it on zoysia... after it was kilt 3 times...or flat out remove 5"s of soil and discard. It does not reseed itself very well, but those rhizomes can be very deep.

It's a bit late to do this sort of thing though. The zoysia is going dormant. You are what, zone 6? Roundup wont kill it now. Kill zoysia in August, when it's active and growing. IMO, too late to do anything about it now, short of sod cutting. rototilling and... well, it's even too late for seed or sod. Wait till next summer.

[Richard Martin]

Good luck getting rid of the Burmuda. For Burmuda to grow really good you must be an extreme southern zone 6. The plant hardiness zones were updated in 2006 to reflect the warming climate.

http://www.arborday.org/media/graphics/2006_zones.png

[bob]

Bermuda = http://www.gemplers.com/product/G49785/Fusilade-II-Weed-Control-Herbicide-Post-emergent-1-qt

[Kutz Lawns]

Nothing short of a nuclear bomb won't get rid of it!

[JDUtah]

http://www.lawnsite.com/showthread.php?t=252563

[PHS]

Whitey, Could you successfully grow a Zoysia lawn where you're at if you wanted to or does it grow well enough to be a weed but not well enough to make a lawn?