How To Kill Clover In Your Lawn The Cheap Way

it's got a few areas of clover in my yard this year that have been starting to kind of spread out a little bit more than I would like them to so I've been wanting to spray these it's been so hot here over the past couple weeks above 90 sometimes near a hundred degrees and that's not a good time to be spraying some weeds because you can do some damage to your yard so today it's finally cooled down alone enough this morning that I'm gonna go out and spray a little bit of clover take you along for the whole process show you what I'm using that's coming right up [Music] so over the years I've had a few problems with clover in my backyard and actually a couple years ago I did a video on spraying some of it and I was using a hose end sprayer at that time and just using pretty much the generic we'd be gone and it did work I think it took a little bit longer than it really should and so that's why I've switched to today I've switched to something like this so this is still we'd be gone product I wanted to use something that is pretty generic to test it to see if I can recommend it for you guys and that way it's something easy to pick up at one of the big-box stores or order this on Amazon not very expensive that's usually the route that I go first to see if I can just recommend something like this something that's easy to get not too expensive so this is the actual we'd be gone product that's targeted more towards chickweed violate things like that and then the clover so the active ingredient in this product is the one that we're looking for as far as targeting clover that's gonna work a little bit better than just the generic we'd be gone which is more to four D based so I'm not going to try to pronounce it but the active ingredient here is what you're looking for when we're targeting clover I also picked up a little bit of surfactant then I'm gonna mix in with this just a little tiny bit you don't need too much especially since I don't have a whole lot of clover and we'll just be targeting some spots in my yard not blanketing everything if you've ever sprayed clover before you'll see that a lot of times the water droplets will kind of beat up on top of the leaf and that's just because of the way that the product works and water in general so what this does is help to spread out that water so that it soaks into the leaf and kind of coats it more than has those little droplets on there so I'll try to show you that once we get spraying here in a second but I just want to mention that I'm also gonna be using this surfactant okay now even though it's hot I'm going to be putting on some long sleeves here I've also got some gloves put on while we mix up everything I've got long pants on and let's just protect us from any spray that might go anywhere so I put some water into my sprayer now a little bit but this product says we need one ounce of this per gallon and I don't really need to mix up a whole gallon because I'm not doing the whole large area I'm just going to be spot spraying a few things so I'm gonna start with a half a gallon I can always mix up more but I don't really have want to have a lot to waste I put a little bit in here some of the 1/2 ounce of this put this in there just do a little splash of the surfactant because that says it needs 1 the 2 teaspoons per gallon so just a tiny little splash is going to be good nice thing about these 2 Z's they have these little measuring cups which actually has the ounce marks in there so we can actually just use this which is nice [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so then now I will add the rest of the water to make it a half gallon that'll help us mix things up just a little bit then of course I can shake it around in there or stir it up whatever I want to do okay obviously we want to try to do this on a day that's not very windy and today it's pretty minimal but I'm gonna keep this spray with my nozzle a little bit closer to the ground and kind of target these weeds just a little bit more and make sure I don't get too much overspray anywhere today okay pretty much what I do now is just go walking kind of the grid pattern across my yard that way I don't spray spots more than once I kind of forget where I was that's kind of the way that it works for me I just go in a grid pattern spray what I see and we're just spot spraying so it's not too difficult [Music] helps a lot too if you wear sunglasses or especially polarized sunglasses because you can kind of see a difference in the shade of green on the grass where you've sprayed or the wet areas are it's a little bit darker so that helps out a lot too [Music] right remember when I said when you sometimes when you spray clover if you don't have that surfactant you're gonna see kind of some droplets on the leaves so let me show you what it looks like when you use that surfactant and how it coats the leaves [Music] normally you would see little droplets on there and you'd see just a little tiny little droplets of water but if you look closely there you can see how much it's coating the whole leaf and that's going to help us a lot in killing it so that surfactant it's a real big help in that part of it okay I've run out of spray but is pretty much the exact perfect amount there's just a couple tiny little spots near the border of my lawn that I didn't spray yet but I'm gonna test to spray out anyway to make sure that it works and then if it does I can go back and hit those spots pretty easily or touch up any spots that I might have missed on the next time so one thing also to mention is that this is rain fast in six hours meaning that once it's dry in about six hours it won't be affected by rain or water or anything like that so just keep that in mind don't apply this before it's going to rain or you think it's going to rain obviously and it should be fine as long as you give it six hours and also don't have kids or your pets in these areas until it dries that's according to the directions I'm going to give it a couple days here not sure exactly how long it's going to take before you start to see some effects it's a little bit of time has passed now and I want to give you just an update on what the clovers looking like after we sprayed it so let's go take a look okay so here's one of those first areas that we sprayed and most of it's looking pretty sick in there there's a few of them they kind of are still hanging on a little bit but it's looking pretty sick overall here's pretty much another spot very similar kind of looking like it's all curling up so overall looking pretty good so the directions in there said that we might need two applications in order to get rid of it completely especially if it's been established for a while so it said two applications two to three weeks apart so I'm going to keep watching this here I also want to show you one other issue that I'm going to spray that I didn't get to earlier that's in my backyard all right so here's what else with which you can see is creeping Charlie of course that's doing exactly what it says it's doing which is pretty much creeping along and it's kind of starting to take over so I'm gonna have to spray that a little bit too in order to get rid of some of this before it starts to take over this whole back part of my yard all right so just a little bit more spraying to do but overall things are looking pretty good after my first application I'll keep you updated on how things look as we go along so if you're wanting to take care of some of these things just keep in mind that this should be done when temperatures are below 85 and it's getting to a point around the country where temperatures are a lot higher than that so you might need to wait a little bit longer and more towards fall for those things but I'll keep you updated in how things are going here thanks so much for watching this one we'll see you next time [Music]

Channel: Ryan Knorr Lawn Care

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Length: 7min 50sec (470 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 14 2018