Crabgrass with Truegreen

jonspolaris · Jul 27, 2005

I Went to my moms condo and noticed that they have a considerable amount of crabgrass all over the subdivision. This is something that has came with in the last two weeks. When I was there the president of the association was talking to the Guy from Trugree about it. He said all there accounts have it and there is nothing that can be done. He said that they have a spray for it, but it will yellow the lawns too. The lawns are very well irrigated. I know they have had Trugreen for many years. We are located in se Michigan
Is telling the truth or blowing smoke? I thought it was controllable with the correct pre-emergance?
Today he was applying a 30-0-6 fert, so Im sure the grass will grow like crazy now.

Thanks

SHOWCASE LAWNS LLC · Jul 27, 2005

YOU CAN SPRAY FOR THE CRABGRASS NOW. THEY JUST DONT WANT TO BECAUSE IT WILL COST THEM MONEY. BUT THEY DID A FERTILIZER SO THEY CAN BILL FOR THAT

SPRAYING FOR THE CRABGRASS MAY YELLOW THE LAWN A LITTLE BUT IF ITS IRRIGATED AND FERTILIZED IT WILL BOUNCE RIGHT BACK

DUSTYCEDAR · Jul 27, 2005

blowing smoke up u like u r a chimney
they just went light on the pre emergent in the spring and now it shows

out4now · Jul 27, 2005

Smoke signals.

jt5019 · Jul 27, 2005

I have a couple lawns treated by trugreen and scotts and in the past week or two i noticed crabgrass growing like wildfire.

Runner · Jul 27, 2005

Acclaim or Drive 75. The problem is, is the cost factor. They would have to purchase alot and singal out the jobs that need iot. They are not prepared to do this type of service. It woould be too specialized for them to do. This is a good example of just how generic they are. So much for the "formulated for YOUR lawn" bit.

lawn king · Jul 28, 2005

Ther'e is nothing, i mean nothing about the above named lawn care company ( so called) that woul'd shock or surprise me, NOTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Poor service,poor quality,clueless feild people, it just goe's on & on!

NattyLawn · Jul 28, 2005

To spray or not to spray?

I sprayed a lot of Drive last year, and then had customers complain about bare spots....

jonspolaris · Jul 28, 2005

Thanks, should I tell them that I want them to put on Acclaim because they dident put on enough Pre-emergence.
The guy from Tru-green said that ALL of his customers have crabgrass. He made it sound like you cant do anything about it and we should just live with it.
He does know it is irrigated.

Evan528 · Jul 28, 2005

Hate to day it but alot of my lawns have crabbgrass in them this year also. I used Dimension at the highest labeled rate but with all the rain we have had this year there is break through. I will be spot spraying Drive in the next week or so to take care of it. :dizzy:

TURF SIDE UP · Jul 28, 2005

let me start by saying i worked for tru-green chumplawn, for four years in the early 90's, i saw literaly 100's of so called "lawn specialists" go through the doors during that time, and 95% of them didnt have a clue!!!
they work by volume, like mc donalds,for every customer they cancel, theres another willing to give them one more chance. they could care less about the customer, as long as they hit there bottom line, and the big wigs get to go to cancun at the end of the year, and spend there bonus money.

Crabgrass with Truegreen

jonspolaris

SHOWCASE LAWNS LLC

DUSTYCEDAR

out4now

jt5019

Runner

lawn king

NattyLawn

jonspolaris

Evan528

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