Unfiltered reviews from lawn owners who put the first OMRI-certified selective organic herbicide to work on clover, dandelion, ground ivy and more.
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Wendy Verified Buyer
Jun 8, 2025
i mowed friday afternoon, sprayed saturday morning around 9am before it got hot. by sunday the violets and clover were drooping. by wednesday they were toast. didnt have to do a second application, single pass got everything. only reason im writing a review at all is because nothing has ever just worked for me on the first try with weeds. so credit where its due.
did most of what i needed. clover gone. dandelions gone. but one stubborn patch of wild violet in the corner needed three applications to fully knock out. so 4 stars instead of 5 because the wild violet thing took longer than i wanted. but it eventually worked, no hard feelings.
works on what its supposed to work on at the selective rate (broadleaf weeds in lawns). for grassy weeds like crab grass you have to use the higher non selective rate which works but kills the surrounding grass, so its a tradeoff. for me, clover, dandelions and a few wild violet patches were the targets and the selective rate got all of them clean. four stars because i wish a single rate handled both broadleaf and grassy weeds in a lawn, but that physics doesnt exist anywhere as far as i know.
wild violet was everywhere along our walkway and in shaded spots. did a first pass at 3 cups per gallon, killed maybe 70% of it. came back 12 days later for the holdouts and got the rest. so two applications total but i was warned by the website thats normal for stubborn weeds. patience pays off here. no damage to the fescue around it.
ok ill be honest i was skeptical, every organic ive tried before just burned the leaves and the weed came back two weeks later. wild violet is supposed to be one of the hardest weeds and this stuff actually got it. did one heavy app at 3 cups per gallon, missed a couple plants and had to come back two weeks later for a touch up but the original spots are clean. shocked tbh.
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