beware of this weed!!

[baddave]

http://www.walterreeves.com/lawn-care/chamberbitter-mimosa-weed/ guys and gals , I'm telling you , if you ever see this stuff starting in your yard or plots , take care of it now .. i've had decent luck w/ 2/4 D amine but it's almost a full time job trying to stay ahead of it .. when it goes to seed it gets b-b-b-ad..glyphoshate will kill it but sometimes you need a selective herbicide .. crap sprouts overnight after you just sprayed right next to it

 

[XIronheadX]

All I can say is good luck with it. I 24D'd mine to death, but it just keeps on coming. I sprayed it in 7 day intervals 3 times. It's still popping up from seed. I shouldn't have skipped the pre-emergent maybe. It's never ending and it's in multiple yards.

 

[baddave]

that's all we can do .. spray before it goes to seed and next year maybe double up on preM .. i have some atrazine but my biggest issues are in my veggy gardens .. i read on one website that just remnants of the leaves can sprout .. a dream come true ..nightmares are dreams too

 

[Beagler282]

I have it in on my property. half roundup and half 2-4d gets rid of it for me.

 

[JackSprat]

It's taken over a flower bed I have so no herbicide. My afternoon exercise is pulling up a bunch. It's like a solid sheet - no idea where it all came from.

Now it's spreading into the yard.

 

[XIronheadX]

I think it came out of Florida from pine straw deliveries. Chinese invasive probably.

 

[doomtrpr_z71]

Isoxaben can be used in flowerbeds to control it from a preemergence stand point.

 

[JackSprat]

Isoxaben can be used in flowerbeds to control it from a preemergence stand point.

Yes but you can't go behind it with flowers from seed. I have a nice stand of volunteer zinnias that have been going for several years, and I'm interested in seeing where they go.

 

[bilgerat]

I noticed it in My lawn just the other day. it a small spot so I hope I can nip it in the bud before it spreads.

 

[Forest Grump]

So use Roundup, kill the chamberbitter, don’t treat your flowers. Or use a pre, & buy plants at the nursery instead of from seed.

But once you get chamberbitter, it will plague you forever. It adapts to mowing, growing short & still making seed. As soon as you recognize the plant, it is already making seed.

One need not be concerned with it in a food plot; it is a poor competitor by comparison, but in a lawn or a flowerbed, it is a pain for sure.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Mix your round up and paint it on them with a brush.

They also sell round up in a gel you can roll on like a deodorant application. I never had much luck with that though. Total pain.

 

[Crakajak]

You tube PVC herbicide applicator. Best thing for small spot weed killing.

 

[95g atl]

hmmmm I have several of those weeds around my mailbox. Darn it.
I have to pull them out asap.
Thx for sharing.

 

[GAGE]

Get some in my wifes flowerbed every year, and every year I pull it up a little at a time.

 

[Wood999]

Good Luck. Every year mine gets worse. I can kill it, but it would be at the expense of killing all of my grass. In my Fescue back yard, it dominates. Front, Bermuda, Zoysia, Centipeed, I am letting the grass grow longer than normal, hoping it gets choked out. Not as bad in the spreading grasses.

 

[Wood999]

Oh, first frost wonders.

Lawn service I used could not get rid of it.

 

[Wood999]

Knowing what I know now, and if confined to just a flower bed, the flower bed would be expendable, and I would Nuke the flower bed, flowers an all.

 

[baddave]

i never saw this junk till last year .. in the lawn doesn't bother me as much as everywhere else gardens, plots , walking paths.. 2 4 D amine kills it real good in the lawn, you just have to spot spray it everyday for a while

 

[Batjack]

Any thing I want to get rid of, I just point it out to the ol lady and tell her to make it grow...woman has the "brownest" thumb on the planet. She kills everything green she "tries" to grow.

 

[elfiii]

Chamberbitter (Mimosa Weed)

So that's what that cra er I mean stuff is called. I kill it back every year and the next year it comes right back again. I do the same as everybody else - gly and 2-4-d.