I have a turf fescue lawn that has some grasses that grow almost twice as fast scattered throughout my back yard. It looks like grass but grows like a weed? Any ideas? Ill post a picture later today. Thanks.
Can't comment much without a pic, but generally speaking lawn-wise, a grass that is more agressive is usually a weed. Have you left it long enough to see if it gets seeds or such?
I hope we can help you solve your problem once you've posted your photograph Farrella. Sounds as though it may be something along the lines of rye grass.
Ok, here are the pics. Sorry the pics arent great it is hard to get a picture showing the discrepancy of height between the two grasses. I then took a pic showing the size difference between the two grasses on the counter, it has been about 5 days since I mowed my grass and the length difference between the two are surprising. Then I pulled the whole "plant" out of the ground and the soda can is there for size comparison. Thanks so much! I hope this helps, I will post the pics below.
That sure looks like Nutsedge to me farrella. Quoting from a Maryland Cooperative Extention publication the rest of which can be seenHERE. (FYI, This is a PDF document) Oh by the way, you have every right to be proud of your lawn, it looks great, makes me want to walk barefoot through it. :-D
Thats exactly what I thought, except it doesn't have the triangular stem. And how did it start growing EVERYWHERE so fast???? I will check the stem again maybe I missed it the first time, thanks.
I think they may be referring to the very pronounced V shape of the leaves. I have a theory that nefarious forces are at work, spreading zillions of weed seeds from silent, low-flying, invisible aircraft in the dead of night.
Go ahead, laugh and scoff . . . . . . but I'm not taking my tinfoil hat off for nuthin', me and Mulder, we know they're out there!!
