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Walmart has preen on sale. I was there yesterday

Walmart has the large containers of preen on sale

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Originally Posted by Cobh521 (Post 674365)

Walmart has the large containers of preen on sale

how much???

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Originally Posted by gomoho (Post 674485)

how much???

For $12.98. I paid double that at home depot

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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 666022)

I agree and as Jan says...if the little seeds have sprouted, they will come up and will need to be pulled. It only keeps seeds from sprouting and the malicious, nasty, creeping fingers of the zoysia and St. Augustine grass is immune to it too, because those nasty plants invade your beds with long creeping sprouts underground.

But it does work and we have used it for years. I think the larger quantities of Preen are cheaper at Samsclub.

How do those react to Roundup?

Very timely thread for me. I have a huge weed problem, don't know if its worse than anyone else, but to me, its horrible. I'm tired of paying people to remove them and then a week later, they're back. So I did an experiment myself and I weeded my beds recently by moving the rock to one side, pulling all the existing weeds by the roots and then applying Preen around the plants and putting back the rock. It was a large job but I enjoyed being outside and working in the soil... lol. (this was pre-lovebugs).

Its been about a month and not one weed has come through the rock yet. Making me very happy that my work was not in vain. Preen may be expensive but not as expensive as paying weeding people every month.

Now I presume I just have to keep up with the maintenance.

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Originally Posted by KathieI (Post 674539)

Kathie,

Even that got to be too much work for us. I now have a guy who comes and sprays the nasty weeds to death monthly. Haven't seen a weed since we got him......:clap2:

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Originally Posted by Shirleevee (Post 674541)

Kathie,

Even that got to be too much work for us. I now have a guy who comes and sprays the nasty weeds to death monthly. Haven't seen a weed since we got him......:clap2:

Good to know and you have such a beautiful yard. Give me his number but I've used 3 or 4 different people and sometimes if they don't know what they're doing with the spray, they kill my beautiful flowers. I am using the spray also but only on areas not close to the flowers. I'll try him but I am having fun working in the soil,, guess I'm a gardener at heart. Just don't like the bugs, ugh!! and yesterday had a 4' snake in my lanai so now I'm scared to work in the yard.. double ugh!! ugh!!

Preen now sells mulch which contains Preen for easier weed control.

Mulches with Weed Preventer | Preen.com

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Originally Posted by Cedwards38 (Post 674508)

How do those react to Roundup?

Roundup will wipe them out, and hopefully PREEN will keep new ones from sprouting.