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If you happened to stumbled upon this, I highly commend your efforts. If you're anything like me, you probably spent hours searching for a solution to bentgrass without having to kill off your entire lawn. I'll tell you what-- I love my lawn only behind Jesus and my wife-- and I was ecstatic to find Tenacity. Don't know if you love your lawn? Have you ever had your wife give you a look or audibly say 'What the hell are you doing?' while you picked through grass on your hands and knees at some ungodly time in the morning looking for those nasty invaders? You love your lawn. Anything else? Step up your game. The short version? The stuff works-- and very well. But here are some tips that, if followed, will greatly assist you in delivering that jealousy-inducing turf: 1. Be prepared with physical, emotional, and spiritual stamina-- because you'll be praying to God this stuff works. I say this mostly because it's a slow, starving selective herbicide. Don't expect burn off or RoundUp-like results in 24 hours. It won't immediately show results (the white grass as noted by others), and you'll need to make multiple applications. I found that three applications is best at 2-week intervals. 2. Use a surfactant. Don't want to buy the professional stuff? Squirt some Dawn or Ajax into the mixture, and it'll suffice. 3. Invest in a heavy rake (or dethatching rake). Rake out the bentgrass before you apply, and before you repeat applications. This will ensure that you're getting the best contact to the weed, as well as removing any dead stolons as you go. 4. If the only difference between your lawn and a golf course is the pin, just use RoundUp. You'll kill the root system much better. I had some patches that were so thick it could have been a putting green-- I decided to just kill those patches entirely and re-seed. 5. Cut the bentgrass nice and low with your mower, and bag it. You don't want to spread stolons across your good grass. Then mow at the highest setting that you can-- a healthy, thick lawn is a good defense from future growth. Yes, the syringe is difficult to use in the bottle (i'll probably struggle a bit when the level gets lower), but it makes measuring easy. Also, note that this small 8 oz bottle will create something like 60 gallons of herbicide. That's around a buck per gallon-- consider this to be a good long-run investment. You might also want to get a good backpack sprayer. I used a 4-gallon and it worked really well. Final details: I applied in July and August. Weather fluctuated, but was generally dry, with temps with highs in 70s and upwards of 90 during a hot spell. I live in West Michigan-- my lawn is about 2 acres of mostly tall fescue, but has mixes in different spots, pretty typical of midwestern lawns.