buttgrass

Don't worry. Doug's winning. This has been an ongoing battle for a over a month now. This stupid weed is proving quite the pain in the butt to get rid of. We started growing a lawn but apparently we didn't kill the weeds good enough before we planted (lesson #1 learned of many this past few weeks...) because the lovely new little law sprouts got overtaken by these pests. And the only way to get them out is to go deep, deep, deep down and find the nut so it doesn't spread more weeds all over. And in the process, wrecking all your lovely little new grass sprouts.

 

Dig out around it and be verrrrry careful not to break the thin root that holds everything together and leads you to the nut...

and you are finally rewarded with this...

or this...

Don't worry, we're going to win. These suckers don't have a chance with Doug around :)