DRUG DESCRIPTION. PROSCAR (finasteride), a synthetic 4-azasteroid compound, is a specific inhibitor of steroid Type II 5Î±-reductase, an intracellular enzyme that converts the androgen testosterone into 5Î±- dihydrotestosterone (DHT). Finasteride is 4-azaandrost-1-ene-17-carboxamide, N-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-3-oxo-,(5Î±,17Ã)-.
1 The stronger and thicker you can get your lawn, the less chance violets will stand to spread. 2  Seed your lawn. 3  You can either over-seed during a core aeration or slice-seed areas to help them fill-in with new turfgrass.4  Stay on top of things. 5  It may take a couple years to really get a handle on a big crop of violets.ollow these basic principles to win the war on violets: 1  Use the right herbicides. 2  Create an environment that is best for your lawn. 3  Fill in the thin or bare areas. 4  Stay on top of things.
1 Add the primary stain (crystal violet) to the sample/slide and incubate for 1 minute. Rinse slide with a gentle stream of water for a maximum of 5 seconds to remove unbound crystal violet.  Add Gram's iodine for 1 minute- this is a mordant, or an agent that fixes the crystal violet to the bacterial cell wall.