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My wife and I just moved from NYC to Durham, NC so need some help on what to do with our lawn.
When we inherited it it was all weeds. In early fall we had someone kill it, use a plugging machine and lay down new fescue seed.
It's look great now but can see some weeds coming through now.
what do I do to keep them from taking over the baby grass?

Thanks for your help,
Scott

Corn Gluten Meal is an organic pre-emergent herbicide. It will keep new weeds from germinating. It's also a 9-0-0 which means it's got Nitrogen to feed your young plants

It's not too hard to find, either. A good garden center will have it.

But it may be tougher to find at Home Depot or Lowes....You just have to go look and see if they have it in your area

I like the corn gluten meal, but you have to put it on fairly thickly for it to do much good and it is pretty expensive that way, if your lawn is very big. And you have to apply it before the weeds sprout, meaning usually in fall and/or very early spring.

Otherwise you can just put down compost as a mulch to help suppress the weeds.