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grassyperennialDifficulty
Wild onion and wild garlic
Allium canadense, Allium vineale
Clumps of hollow, round, dark-green leaves that shoot up in March and smell like onion when mowed. Grows from bulbs.
How to tell
- •Round hollow leaves (garlic) or flat solid leaves (onion)
- •Strong onion smell when cut
- •Tall clumps in early spring before the lawn wakes up
- •Bulb with offsets underground
Why it is in your lawn
Thin turf in early spring.
Best window
March and November, when the lawn is short and clumps stand out.
1 · Fix the cause
- Dig the whole clump with a trowel, including offset bulbs
- Do not pull; leaves break off and the bulb stays
2 · Eco product
Iron HEDTA has limited effect on the waxy leaves. Digging is the real fix.
Track the price of Iron HEDTA lawn weed killer (Natria Lawn Weed Control or Fiesta)What you are signing up for
Dig, do not pull.
Reference only · what the truck would spray
Active ingredient
2,4-D + dicamba with surfactant
Typical product
Weed B Gon with added surfactant
Why we do not recommend it
Needs multiple fall applications even then. A trowel in March is faster.
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