A Plan for Japanese Stilt Grass Last year we put in a new lawn and to keep the costs reasonable we used seed instead of sod. We did this knowing that in the spring the weeds would return and we would need a method to deal with them. So, we hired a very prominent and expensive grounds maintenance company to solve the problem. We selected this vendor because we believed they had expertise where other firms did not. In the end it turns out you don't always get what you pay for as they have only one maintenance program, regardless of the local conditions in your lawn. Sadly their program did nothing for the Japanese srtilt grass. In the end, our new beautiful lawn was again taken over by this invasive weed in the late spring and summer months leaving the problem to me (the computer guy) to solve. Japanese Stilt Grass, What is it? According to the National Park Service , "Japanese Stiltgrass [Microstegium Vimineum] was introduced into the United States in Tennes
