Post & Pre-Emergent Tips For Turf
 
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Post & Pre-Emergent Tips For Turf
Always refer to the product label of your specific product prior to use.
Herbicide type Example brand name Common name Label statements for use over newly seeded turf
Preemergence annual grass Barricade Prodiamine Wait 60 days after seeding or until after the second mowing, whichever is longer
Preemergence annual grass Pendulum Pendimethalin Applications made after turf has filled in and at least 4 mowings
Preemergence annual grass PreM Pendimethalin Use only on well established turfgrass with a dense and uniform stand
Preemergence annual grass Ronstar Oxadiazon Apply to established turf only
Preemergence annual grass Team Benefin/trifluralin Apply to established turf only
Preemergence annual grass Tupersan Siduron

Can be applied prior to seeding cool-season grasses and anytime after germination

Pre- and postemergence annual grass Dimension Dihiopyr

Applications to well-established turf with good root system and uniform stand and has received at least two mowings

Postemergence annual grass Drive Quinclorac Can be applied 7 days prior to seeding on any cool season turfgrass. Can be applied anytime after seeding on tall fescue, but must wait 28 days after emergence of creeping bentgrass, perennial ryegrass, or Kentucky bluegrass.
Postemergence annual grass Acclaim Extra Fenoxaprop Limited to 9 oz/A on Kentucky bluegrass that has been tilled and has emerged for 1 month. Can be applied to tall fescue, fine fescue, perennial ryegrass that is at least four weeks old.
Postemergence annual grass Target MSMA Do not treat until after the third mowing.
Postemergence crabgrass, creeping bentgrass, etc Tenacity Mesotrione Prior to seeding, or two weeks to four mowings after emergence whichever is longer
Postemergence broadleaf Most products 2,4-D, dicamba, MCPA, MCPP, triclopyr, fluroxpyr Newly seeded turf should be mowed 2-4 times prior to treatment.
Postemergence broadleaf Quicksilver Carfentrazone No restrictions
Postemergence nutsedge SedgeHammer Halosulfuron Applications limited to well-established turf with good root system and uniform stand.
Postemergence nutsedge Basagran
Lescogran
Bentazon Do not apply until well established.
Postemergence nutsedge, etc Certainty Sulfosulfuron Recommended for use only on established stands
Postemergence nutsedge, etc Dismiss Sulfentrazone Established turf areas only
Postemergence annual bluegrass in creeping bentgrass Velocity Byspribac Applications can be made 42 days after emergence of bentgrass