Carpet grass

[D Palm]

Centipede or Zoysia will choke it out. Do these steps.

1: Roto till and burn any excess. You may can rent one from HD if that’s the cheapest option.

2. Sow centipede seed or zoysia sod/plug.  St. Augustine does a poor job choking out and requires a ton of weed and feed. Do not sow Bermuda, your asking for pain.

3.Cover seeds with a light layer of peat moss to stop run off, improve water retention. Do not use hay.

4. pull weedy grass as it emerges since you can not use a pre emergent with seed sowing.
 

5. In January 2024 spread pre emergent to stop the cycle of carpet grass, crab grass, torpedo grass, etc.
 

Do not use weed and feed. You can lay nitrogen any time, some say after sprout but I try too before sowing of possible.

Blood meal is great but does not last long. Undesirable grasses generally like poor conditions. Rabbit 🐇 droppings are prime fertilizer imo.

[JLM]

I think what ill do is spot kill with black plastic, starting this weekend. After lifting the plastic in probably about 2 weeks or so, depending on how much sun we get, ill hit it with centipede grass seeds. I have determined that whats in my backyard is likely centipede, which is the stuff i want to take back over.  I aggressively mowed the entire backyard down a couple weeks ago (it didnt do much because we got like 3 inches of rain shortly after), it has not had any complications whatsoever, and it seems to love the shade back there. Pretty sure this stuff is also in my front yard. Anyways, i definitely want this stuff in place of carpet grass. It just sucks that centipede grass seed is so expensive.

[JLM]

Ok so an update:

Plastic and tarps didnt work too well. It probably would now but it has since been thrown out. 

I got an electric tiller from Lowes, i figured it would work good enough to break it up so i can remove. Followed instructions on putting it together to a T, it wouldnt even try to turn on. Took it back and returned it, back to square one. Its July now and this stuff is going bonkers. I have started tearing out this grass by hand, clump by clump. My goal is to get this finished this week. On the edges of the yard, will just use weed killer to keep it back for now. Gonna put a layer of top soil over the patches that have been dug out, will then add some centipede grass seed to it. Hopefully the centipede will be established enough come winter. I might have to start getting into a care routine. Might slap some weed and feed on the yard at some point. This is the most weedy the yard has ever been.

[JLM]

LOL I’m not great at keeping goals when it comes to the yard itself.
 

My theory is that if I can keep the grass knocked back to a point where it cannot produce seeds then it will not spread anymore and will not be able to sustain its population in the future. Would I generally be correct on this theory?
 

I think I’m gonna mow on the lowest level possible and then apply some grass seed and hope for the best. When this happens I don’t know because we have chunks of fence everywhere in the yard right now.