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What can I do now to prevent weeds in my lawn? Rate This FAQ You
can’t see them, yet they are there — lurking just under the
surface of your lawn. They seem to know that if they lay low
long enough you will forget about them until it is too late.
Then, one carefree summer day when you are admiring your
landscape, sipping a lemonade as you wait for guests to arrive,
they will strike right where it hurts — the front lawn.
Unfortunately, once they rear their ugly heads there is not much
you can do. Annual lawn weeds hide out until around mid-June,
and by then it is too late to do anything. Annual weeds include
crabgrass, spurge and foxtail. They germinate when the soil
warms, but lay in wait until just the wrong moment to get big
and ugly. Because they hide so well in the spring, you hardly
know they are there until it is too late. Since annuals die off
in the fall after the first freeze, we tend to forget about them
until the first barbeque of the