What herbicide w/lawn seed to use to kill dandelion, clover?

plantlover1 · Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:47 pm

What is the best herbicide/grass seed combo to get rid of weeds and get
a good stand of real grass?

rainbowgardener · Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:19 am

Not being into poisons, I would suggest put down corn gluten meal now and again in early spring. It is a corn product that functions as a pre-emergence herbicide, suppressing the growth of weed seeds, but also as a high nitrogen feed for your soil. 6 weeks after the spring application, you can put down your new grass seed.

tomf · Sat Oct 10, 2009 10:52 am

If this is the way you want to go; first kill off the weeds with round up, then after a week you can till and seed the lawn.
rainbow the corn gluten lasts only 6 weeks then seeds can sprout?
I am always looking looking for the least harmful way to do things.

evtubbergh · Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:24 pm

But why? They are GOOD. Clover fixes nitrogen and they both help the bees.

rainbowgardener · Thu Jul 13, 2017 9:16 am

I guess I have changed over the past eight years of reading on helpful gardener! I read the title/ headline and thought "but why would you want to do that?" Then I opened it up and saw my own response about the corn gluten.

Maybe I was just trying to give the OP what they asked for but in an organic way. Now I would just say let them grow!!