Nutsedge: Any experience with “Surge”

cn90 – posted 03 May 2010 10:21

Last year I had quite a bit of nutsedge in my yard (Kentucky Blue Grass and Tall Fescue yard).

I want to tackle the Nutsedge this year and my local supplier sells “Surge”:http://www.pbigordon.com/pdfs/Surge-SL.pdf

A couple of questions:1. I tried Surge in a small patch last year and it killed the grass too. Maybe the dilution that I prepared was a bit strong?

2. Anyone here uses Surge with good success against nutsedge?

3. If not, then I guess I have to go back to SedgeHammer (which is very expensive, it costs way more than Surge).

turfgrass – posted 04 May 2010 16:12

just stick with sedgehammer

Alex_in_FL – posted 15 May 2010 02:44

Sedge hammer is more expensive but it works – and will not kill your other grass. The surge is going to take multiple repeat treatments (many repeat treatments) where as sedgehammer usually only takes 2-3 treatments.

Sedge is just difficult to get rid of – period, end of story.

You can also try Image (careful, don’t get Image brand atrazine). Image works but takes 3-4 weeks to see results so many people “give up” on it.

But Sedgehammer is your best bet (unless you dig up the area and bring in new soil).