I can offer the best advice to home owners troubled by we[illegible]ds in lawns.
Pull 'em out!
Up on the north 40. John Kroese, my neighbor, apparently has declared war on the weeds in his lawn. John, you see, sodded his ground and so has a head start on weed growing.
Master Kroese and his Missus are down on their hands and knees (weed pulling Mr. Geib) hard at it every day and even at noon. And from the looks of their fine lawn, I'd say they are winning the battle.
Ed Flake of Flake Seed Center, sez just in case you missed a few spots fertilizing your lawn, go back over those "missed" spots to be sure the grass is f[illegible]d then redo the whole shebang just to wrap up the job proper.
Mr. Flake sez the best way to get rid of pepper grass is to pull out each plant by the roots, all four to six inches of the roots. If you're just a little b[illegible]t tired of pulling, mow off the tops of pepper grass to keep it from seeding and spreading. Then pull out the plants at convenient times.
Now is the time to get those trees plant[illegible]d, but a little early for some small plants. May 10 is the old faithful time to do much of the planting, figuring of course that the frosts are long gone.
Up thar on the north 40, we planted two hybrid elms and one tulip tree. The man said oncet the elms get started (that could be one to two years) they will grow 10 to 15 feet a year. Yas'm, that's what the man said. The tulip tree grows to a monstrous 80 feet if you wait 20 or 30 years and has yaller blossoms of sort that smell purty.
Whilst visiting a relative in California a couple years ago, I found a man who had the greenest of green leafed trees. He didn't go for the packaged fertilizer stuff, but instead burrowed fish into the ground near tree trunks. Claims it really works.