😂 I liked the clover in my lawn but it too got taken over by crabgrass and was actually suffocating the grass. So I had some lawn company come out last year and it totally got rid of it. Only problem now is there are some areas that are bare or just completely void of grass. The areas that are down to just dirt however I'll blame my dog. He's a big ol 120lb puppy and went through a brief digging phase when he got excited. So now he's not allowed on the front lawn ever and he only goes in the back after he's had a good long walk and some training drills to get all of that pent up energy out first. 🧏🏻‍♀️Get a Canè Corso they said, it'll be fun they said. Lol not on the lawn if they're not properly exercised and supervised.

You need a pre-emergent to control oxalis.

I think you're right, that little flower there does look like oxalis not bur clover, prior to spraying I clearly had majority bur clover in the area because the plants actually had burrs growing off them. The leaf structure between oxalis and bur clover is very similar so it's certainly possible I mixed a few up when looking for weeds in the lawn. I have shown the burrs in this lawn a number of times on this channel dating back at least a year if not more. I'll have to be more careful to not assume what I'm seeing based on leaf appearance alone is bur clover when upon closer inspection some of it might actually be oxalis.

You're welcome! :)

past couple of months I've been starting to send my miced audio through Adobe Podcast's Enhance Speech tool. It works wonders but this video is the first one where I filmed the audio in the backyard where it is quieter than out front so the tool must have performed even better back there with less background noise and nearly zero wind. I hope to do more backyard filming this year so hopefully this will be the audio more frequently this season. Thanks for noticing and noting the improvement.

Don't do it. You will be sad. 2,4db on Amazon is what you want, aka Butyrac 200. It's not the same a 2,4d.

Tenacity won't kill microclover, but it's not the best post-emergent. I've sucessfully used it to control chickweed in my microclover-kbg-rye backyard.

I remember why 24db wasn't on my radar, it's a better herbicide for clover but it's restricted for sale to a lot of states, mine included. I can't buy it so the next best option is 24d.

Just as Tolfulnc said Butyrac 200 will be better for your situation but due to state restrictions you may or may not be able to buy it. Check, otherwise I still believe this is your next best option. Start with light app rates and spot treatments to make sure damage is tolerable.

I'm planning on overseeding fescue into the backyard soon. The PE would prevent me from doing that for a good long while. In the front main yard I did apply PE already, two months ago actually, early Feb

Halosulfuron is the active ingredient to look for. Still takes multiple applications over a full season most likely but it's your best bet even compared to glyphosate IMO. Check out this blog post I made on the topic with video and product options: turfmechanic.com/best-way-to-control-nutsedge/

Hello Brian, was just curious about next season with my nutsedge problem. Is there any product that I can put down to slow or stop the growth of nutsedge before the season starts.

I am very weak in my knowledge base regarding bentgrass. I don't grow it, haven't ever experimented with it either. Perhaps youtube.com/@jasonseiberlich could give you some advice. He's been managing a backyard green for a while now and I'm pretty sure he's running bentgrass.

@@TurfMechanic thank you

Would like clarification on this please. About to put 2-4 d down in my clover plot and don't want to kill it

I will do more research on 24db this morning, just waking up now (west coast timezone) and edit this comment. I've looked into it before but never mentioned it in this video obviously. For clarity though I can guarantee you that target in this video is Medicago polymorpha which is commonly known around here as California Burrclover or Burr Medic. It is obviously not white clover or micro clover but related nevertheless. I have another video in the works on killing the same stuff. 😄 I do wish I had emphasized more clearly in this video that a light application or spot treatment would be best because of the risk of heavy damage but in my lawn it's clear there is still a lot of burr clover everywhere I sprayed. As I said, I'll edit this comment later this morning after I refresh on 24db. Thanks for all your input Tofulnc, perhaps research burr clover and edit your comment if feel it needs to be edited. 👊

@@TurfMechanic I'm quite certain at 9:00 what you are showing is Woodsorrel and not Burr medic or "Burr clover". Everything I said still stands. With that title you're going to have people finding this video who have planted miniclover or white clover. It's going to be a disaster to spray 2,4d on it. And you know it's going to be the people who don't read the label and just put a "splash" of concentrated 46% 2,4d in a spray jug and go to town on their clover....

I agree that that one looks a lot like the sorrel based on the open flower shape so it's very possible some of the others were also sorrel (oxalis for anyone else reading comments). I really believe though that young burr clover has that same heart leaf shape and as it matures the leaf starts taking the rounded shape with slightly jagged or serrated margin. I have a large patch of burr clover in the garden that I haven't dug up yet and the plants are all in various stages of maturity. Each young plant looks just like sorrell and as the plants get bigger and their leaves start getting more ragged, the stems start thickening up, burrs start growing, and the flowers start forming in a similar color but a different shape. Even the leaf veins are slightly different upon close inspection. This research has taken over my morning (I'm always interested in learning all these details and confirming where possible). About an hour ago I dug up one plant with the tap root intact and on that one plant the younger leaves looked heart shaped while the older leaves were starting to look longer (losing the heart shaped appearance). I also have a potted plant that I got from a nursery last year with different soil in it than my yard soil. In it some actual sorrel is growing along side the nursey plant we bought. It looks similar for sure but the vein structure in the leaf is different and the bud the flower grows out of is elongated like a little hotdog while the flowers emerging from burr clover look almost crinkled, same color but much different shape. Anyway, I'm am not perfect, it's possible I made an identification mistake but I don't think I did. If anything this has given me a great deep dive into the comparison of these two plants. I'm temped to make a video about this. Unfortunately videos like that tend to have very limited audiences of interest even though I think they are fascinating. As to your second point, you are probably right on that, most casual users of herbicides just estimate, don't precisely measure, and rarely use low doses. I may have to do some post-production editing of the title/description/links/content to limit that a touch. Thanks again!