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Originally Posted by Switter
I am 59 and I do my own lawn and pest control. I bought a couple sprayers and for insecticides. I alternate between talspar p and termidorSC four times a year. You can get them online from "do my own pest control". I never have bugs. I also don't know if I've even seen a mosquito in The villages since I've gotten here, but I am from Minnesota so I have a very high threshold for mosquitoes.
For lawn weeds I use something called Celsius. Seem to work good but it takes a while and sometimes take a couple treatments.
There is a nasty weed called nutsedge. For that, I use something called sedgehammer. It's a hard weed to kill though but the stuff seems to control it.
For cinch bugs, which kills Saint Augustine grass, I used something called merit from bayer. It's a granular and I only had to do it one time and it worked although I might start doing an annual treatment. It comes in a big bag so you can get multiple applications out of it.
I cut my own grass.
I bet I spend under $200 a year total on all of it.
Now if I could only find something that would kill Bermuda grass, which is invading my neighborhood.
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If you want to kill Bermuda grass from St Augustine there is a cure but it's not cheap. It's a combination of Recognition and Fusilade II herbicides along with a surficant. I have tried it and it does work great and did not harm my St Augustine grass. It takes about 2 weeks to start to notice any results and about a month the Bermuda will be dead. I have to reapply twice for new growth which I think is coming up from seed and will most likely have to keep applying it for a while. The only good thing is once you buy the combination you will have enough to do your lawn probably about 100 times.
I got the Recognition from SiteOne landscaping in Leesburg for about $175 and the Fusilade II on Amazon for about $90. The