Fertilome 8 Oz Over The Top Grass Killer - 10434

Very effective but be patient it will not kill overnight It will help you mitigate that bermuda grass in your shrubs and Monkey grass. I did use dawn dish soap as my surfactant. This seemed to work well.

Bermuda has been invading my flower beds for 3 years. I've tried pulling, fabric, mulch, and various herbicides to no avail. I followed the mixing instructions for this into a spray bottle, and sprayed in 4 ft by 3 ft section. After a week I noticed a little bit of yellowing, but felt like it wasn't going to work. Now 3 weeks later, all the grass I sprayed is dead and the shrubs and roses are doing great. Definitely happy with this product, just need to be patient.

I followed the directions to the letter. I even tried adding a surfactant, and after three different applications, I can say with certainty, that this stuff doesn't do diddly. It didn't kill any of the grasses it claims to kill. It basically did nothing whatsoever. I would look elsewhere for a grass killer. This is a waste of time and money.

Takes week or more to see definite results, but appears to kill grass in Monkey-grass without killing the Monkey-grass. Using in different areas, including on some broad leaf weeds. Ask again later. Too early for definitive conclusion. So far, so good as an "over the top" grass herbicide. (Sethoxidin)

I use it on my centipede lawn to kill crabgrass and bermuda grass that invade it without harming the centipede. Do not use on fescue. My neighbor saw me killing crabgrass with it, bought some for her fescue yard and killed it. Easy to mix in a sprayer. One ounce product to one ounce of dawn dish washing liquid to one gallon of water. The soap acts as a surfactant. You can buy a separate surfactant but it will cost a lot of money and dawn does the same thing. Just remember to add the water to the sprayer first and then the soap or you will have suds all over. Gently swirl shake the sprayer after filling. The product selectively inhibits photosynthesis so the crabgrass and bermuda grass will turn brown and die. The only downside is this stuff is expensive.

So I applied this shortly after it arrived, about 10 days or two weeks ago. It SORTA worked. It browned out the top sprigs of the homicidal bermudagrass that has taken over the poolside flower garden. Applied it again a few days later, with approximately the same result. This product contains Sethoxydim. It is NOT THE SAME as the old Over-the -Top. The old product really, truly did work on grasses without taking out broad-leafed plants. But it's no longer available...at least, not as Over-the-Top. The new product stinks something fierce: be sure to use disposable gloves when applying, so as not to get it on your hands. Don't apply it on a windy day, and stay out of the overspray. As it happened, a few days ago I decided to clean out the garage cabinets. And what should I find but a years-old squirt bottle of the original Over-the-Top! Instead of Sethoxydim, the original stuff contained fluazifop-p-butyl. Wondering if it still worked, I tried it on the still-vigorous, barely scathed bermudagras. And LO! The old stuff WORKS! As in it really works: the bermudagrass promptly croaked over, and later today or tomorrow I will pull its remains out of the ground. You can still get fluazifop-p-butyl -- apparently it's not one of the effective products that have been taken out of consumers' gummy little hands. It's in Ornamec 170 herbicide...also available on Amazon. Here's a US Forest Service risk assessment of this chemical: [...] Scroll down to page xv for a summary. In brief, risk to humans is fairly low; don't spray it on food crops, don't pour it in ponds, lakes, or streams, and don't saturate the ground with it. Use it, literally, "over the top": a little goes a long way.

I use this to kill grass growing in Asiatic Jasmine ground cover. Kills the grass; not the Jasmine. Of course, maybe there’s nothing that kills Asiatic Jasmine!! Forever trying to control it, but wouldn’t want yo kill it

Works great for getting grasses out of shrubs/beds.