Bad Weed

[yarney]

I have got this weed growing in the yard see below It looks like a strawberry runner, and has a stem with a small yellow flower.
When you grab the main runners it breaks off (very brittle) the bigger ones have a tap root so it's hard to get it all out even with a weeder
If you leave it for a long time like i did it will throw seeds like a dandelion

Then it will shoot from where the seed lands mainly where there is bare dirt not where grass is. I went through and pulled out most of it with a weeder but it has come back with lots of back up (there is shoots every where) the photo shows how thick it came back
I have used roundup on it and it dose kill it but the also kills everything leaving bare dirt and the cycle begins again
Can anybody tell me what it is please and what i can use to kill it that won't kill the grass

Jan

[Silverbullet]

Weed and feed! It kills all in the broad leaf family of weeds but doesn't touch grasses. Just don't spray it on surrounding garden, it will kill nice plants too.

[TOONGA]

4-6 inches of pine bark applied over everything

Or as SB stated weed and feed.

TOONGA

[RSR 555]

I had some bad weed back in the 80s

I love the name "Weed and Feed" that's exactly how I got when I had a weed problem.. needed feeding

[steptoe]

sadly it is the survival of the fittest in the plant world.A mix of caustic soda and water will devestate the landscape and nothing will grow for at least eighteen months, then turf roll out time. Not seen it darn sarth

[ktmtragic]

Try this http://www.munns.com.au/73/product/11/p ... iller.aspx

[El_Freddo]

One thing I've learned from the bio movement at the vineyard I used to work at is that you can collect up some of this weed, put it in a bucket with water and keep it covered for a month - keep plunging it every so often.

It will stink something chronic! By the end of the process you strain the brew then spray it where ever the weed is found. The water concoction is deadly to the weed only. You should be able to apply several coats if needed.

Do this a few times over as you need the seeds in the ground to germinate to kill off the weed's "legacy" otherwise you'll end up with the same problem again. You'll have to keep the weed from seeding if you can, this will shorten the process.

Cheers

Bennie