Weed kill before new lawn installation

OHfemail – posted 07 August 2004 09:18

Will keep this short and sweet. New home construction, hired landscape bozo in May – he skipped out on us and we are now growing healthy weeds. Have been told conflicting stories about what to use to kill the weeds prior to having the yard rockhounded/seeded/mulched. The game plan is Roundup, lime, seed, but we’ve been told that using Roundup will affect the seed germination. Any thoughts on this Ohio debacle? Thanks….

ted – posted 07 August 2004 12:15

roundup will not, in any way, affect seed germination. you absolutely need to soil test before applying lime-you might need other nutrients as well.- you might want to wait a couple of weeks depending upon temps.

Alex_in_FL – posted 08 August 2004 15:06

What Ted said.

ted – posted 08 August 2004 18:15

you can even spray roundup on the same day, but nobody’s that brave…. always listen to alex!