Grass seeds+weeds

Mer11409648
by Mer11409648
Had a blank dirt clean area and I bought a bag of scott grass seeds and as the grass starts growing i notice that I have more weeds growing out of the seeds than grass...what can i do to fix it? how can i get rid of the weeds without affecting the new grass.

  8 answers
  • Janet Pizaro Janet Pizaro on Feb 17, 2018

    How did you apply the grass seed?

    • Mer11409648 Mer11409648 on Feb 18, 2018

      first we did it with a manual grass spreader and then directly from the bag.

  • Johnavallance82 Johnavallance82 on Feb 17, 2018

    Just let the weeds grow to a reasonable size then pull them out.otherwise don't worry, if you mow the new lawn often enough the weeds will get cut off before they seed again...........

  • Nancy Turner Nancy Turner on Feb 17, 2018

    Pull the weeds, carefully so that the grass isn't pulled with the weeds. You have to wait to fertilize until the grass is established, so I am not sure if you can put anything else down. Check with someone at a home improvement store and pick their brains to see if there is anything safe to use with new grass.

  • Bijous Bijous on Feb 17, 2018

    Use some weed and feed for your grass. The weed seeds were already there or blew in; they just started at the same time as the grass. You know, weeds are just plants we haven't found a use for yet. Maybe yours will have a purpose...

  • Mer11409648 Mer11409648 on Feb 18, 2018

    Thanks all, I'll try to post pics as I pull out weeds and see if any/which methods work later down the road.

  • Janet Pizaro Janet Pizaro on Feb 18, 2018

    ok so no top soil, lime or starter fertilizer

  • Janet Pizaro Janet Pizaro on Feb 18, 2018

    so you did not apply top soil, lime or starter fertilizer?

    • Mer11409648 Mer11409648 on Feb 19, 2018

      few months before my husband tilted the dirt which made easy to pull out all weeds and tested it, all was Ok so no need to add anything. we water for 2-3months to see if we had anything growing before placing seeds...so nothing came out it appeared to be clean...once we added that bag of grass seeds it all came with more weeds than grass.

  • Janet Pizaro Janet Pizaro on Feb 19, 2018

    For grass seed to properly germinate the following steps are necessary....apply a few inches of top soil, lime,grass seed for you particular location, starter fertilizer ,top with peat moss, keeping moist until germinated