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GARDENER S MAILBAG: What can I do for my Mexican petunia?
By Neil Sperry
Special to the Herald Democrat
Dear Neil: In your answers addressing lawn weeds you often suggest using 2,4-D products in turf. Most lawns also have trees. I remember using that or some similarly named product to kill mesquite trees at the farm back in the 60s. Is it to be used as a spot spray, or can it be applied to a lawn that has lots of weeds in both bermuda and St. Augustine?
Many products were being used that many years back. My dad was doing brush control research (including mesquite) for Texas A&M at that time, and I helped in the testing, so I got to see a lot of those product names. If you buy a product labeled as a broad-leafed weedkiller for use in controlling weeds such as dandelions, clover and poison ivy, among scores of other non-grassy weeds, it can be applied in a large tank sprayer to open areas or as a pump sprayer to smaller spot targets. I prefer to use the 2-gallon pump sprayers when