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How to Get Rid of Stickers From the Lawn
How to Get Rid of Stickers From the Lawn. Tribulus terrestris or goathead weeds are the culprits for lawn stickers. These weeds produce thorny stickers that travel throughout lawns and stick to animals, clothes, shoes and bike tires. The best defense against lawn stickers is to kill them at their source. Look for goathead growing in your lawn. The...
Tribulus terrestris or goathead weeds are the culprits for lawn stickers. These weeds produce thorny stickers that travel throughout lawns and stick to animals, clothes, shoes and bike tires. The best defense against lawn stickers is to kill them at their source. Look for goathead growing in your lawn. The plants produce yellow flowers and jagged oblong foliage. By eliminating goathead from your lawn, you can live sticker free throughout the year.
Things You'll Need
Shovel
Gloves
Towel
Post-emergent herbicide
Grass seed
Plants
Pre-emergent herbicide
Inspect your lawn for goathead weeds. Be sure you search every inch, because these weeds can easily pop up under thick foliage or under debris.
Dig a few feet away from the weeds if they are growing near ornamental plants to reduce the amount of spot spraying you will have to do with weed killer. Lift underneath the plant to ensure getting their roots. Use a gloved hand to help pull them by their roots. You can water the area to make pulling them out easier.
Use a broadleaf post-emergent weed killer on goathead weeds. By using a selective weed killer you avoid killing off grass and other vegetation. Be careful when spraying around other ornamental plants by covering them up with a towel when you spray.
Choose a day that isn't windy or rainy to spray your goathead weeds. Spray the plants to about an inch of their base to avoid contaminating the soil. Reapply the spray according to the directions.
Plant grass or a plant a few weeks after the goathead has been removed. Goathead seeds can last for years, but by planting over bare spots in the yard you reduce the amount of space they can grow by introducing competition from other vegetation.
Tips & Warnings
Spray your yard in the spring with a pre-emergent spray to keep the goathead's seeds from germinating.
Reapply herbicide spray as needed; these plants are difficult to kill and it may take several attempts.
