What to use to kill stickers or burweed

Full yard or patches you can spot spray? I’d probably just use Fertilome Weed-Free-Zone or another brand of “Trimec” herbicide with surfactant as long as the temps are below 85 F
Follow directions on the label. Weather forecast for Dallas indicates you should be OK.

If the stickers are Lawn Burweed that is a cool season annual weed where seeds germinate in late fall/early winter. By this time I’m sure the seeds have already formed. A fall pre-emergent will greatly reduce the problem with those. They will start dying on their own when temps start hitting the 90s.

I don’t have my pics available. They have not turned into full blown stickers yet with the sharp seed or what ever you call it. It’s probably too much to spot spray imo.

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don’t have my pics available. They have not turned into full blown stickers yet with the sharp seed or what ever you call it. It’s probably too much to spot spray imo.

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I’d use this to spray the entire lawn as long as temps are below 85 F.



Is your St Augustine fully greened up? If so, consider using this (note it will control most lawn weeds, not just V Buttonweed). This product doesn’t have the temperature limitation, but your St Augustine should be fully greened up before using it.



Anticipate having having to make a second spray 3 or 4 weeks from now, and if so, you probably have to use MSM Turf if the temps exceed 85.

ronk lives in Dallas and he can can provide you some tips. If he see this thread, he will jump in and respond.

St Augs in Dallas are safe now for msm. Plenty of Site Ones here to get them from. If you haven’t done it yet get a bag of fert (I don’t buy my fert from site one ((it’s top quality though)) craw can tell you which one they have. 24% N) and a bag of arena.

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Used by itself or combined with atrazine?

When used by it’s self (weed free zone) and spot spraying I think the mixing rate is 2 oz per gallon. In fact I found some today (burweed) and will spray it tomorrow.

I’ve used it numerous times on lawn burweed and smoked it. But the bigger the burweed the harder it is to kill.

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Used by itself & I did t have it mixed that strong, I used 1 oz per gallon
Will give it another round this weekend, thanks!

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Used by itself & I did t have it mixed that strong, I used 1 oz per gallon
Will give it another round this weekend, thanks!

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Use 2 oz per gallon of the Weed-Free-Zone if you are spot spraying the burweed - that is a labeled recommended spot spraying rate. It’s what i use if not mixing it with atrazine. That should work - as ronk said, the more mature the weed the more difficult it is to kill.