Lawn query - what are these?

What are these long, leafy, thicker-stalked buggers in my lawn and how do I rid my lawn of them?

Photo, please? Will make identification SO much simpler.

Not sure why didn't attach the first time.

Nor the second time - is there a size limit ?

Hard to be sure, but that could just be the lawn going to seed... in which case, it's a good thing, but it's time to mow.

However, these thicker, taller guys are different from the other "normal" grass surrounding it - the stalks get very hard and comparatively thick and the base and roots are different too. If I were home, I dig one out and (attempt to) post another pic.

PeggyC said:
Hard to be sure, but that could just be the lawn going to seed... in which case, it's a good thing, but it's time to mow.

Could be yellow nutsedge from too much water.

Search pictures of perennial ryegrass spikes and see if that could be it.

That does kinda look like it.

bigben_again said:
Search pictures of perennial ryegrass spikes and see if that could be it.

Most mixes of grass seed include several varieties of grasses--for example: ryegrass, bluegrass and fescue--so, the stalks you are seeing may be the seed part of one of the grasses in the blend. It is time to mow.

On the other hand, crab grass is coarser than the grasses mentioned above. Take a photo looking straight down at the grass you are asking about and if it is crab grass the MOL plant experts will id it as such.

Looks like you've got some grass going to seed

krnl beat me to it. This time of season, I cut twice a week so that it doesn't get too high. If I go more than a week, I'll see some blades seeding up.