Why is my grass getting bright lime green patches?
Bright green patches appear in lawns when certain fast-growing grass types or invasive weeds take over a section of the yard. This stark color difference makes the lawn look uneven and disrupts its uniform appearance.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Applying glyphosate to kill the weed patches
- 2Treating the lawn with pre-emergent herbicide in the fall
- 3Learning to live with the patches
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
Where this came up
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