WEED SPRAYING
Weeds are an ugly reality of all lawns. They make even the best lawns look unsightly because they often grow faster than your regular lawns and grasses. Worse they rob your grass of moisture and nutrients from the soil.
The very best way to ensure you stay on top of these pests is to have a regular weed spraying program that will systemically eradicate all the weeds that arrive. Making sure your lawn looks good for longer periods of time. Coupled with a good fertilisation program your lawn will be the envy of your neighbours in a short period of time.
While weeds can be described as an unwanted plant there are some usual culprits that cause lawn owners the most heartache. They include: clover, flatweeds and dandelion.
Most of these weeds can be eradicated by a select herbicide spray. While these types of sprays are often available at your local hardware stores, these are weak solutions that do not provide the same results as a weed spray from your local contractor. We can clean most of the weeds up with two treatments saving you a great deal of time and money.
Bow & Arrow Herbicide is the standard for broadleaf weed control in the Australian turf industry providing outstanding control of broadleaf weeds in turf.
Bin-Die weedkiller has been formulated especially for use on buffalo lawns (except ST Varieties of buffalo). Bin-Die can also be used on couch, bent, kikuyu, paspalum.
OxaFert weedkiller is a pre-emergent herbicide and fertiliser that targets weed seeds before they take hold. Targeted weeds are Broad Leaf Weeds such as bindii and flatweed, Wintergrass, Summergrass, Creeping Oxalis and Crowsfoot.
Guildford Grass (onion grass) is very shiny and come up in sandy soil areas that have a weak grass sward during winter. They are very difficult to cut with a cylinder type mower and grow from a bulb.
Winter grass is a tiller type grass that has its own root system like rye and fescue. It is difficult to control as it has built up resistance to most chemicals. The best control is a preemergent application around May. Alternate your chemicals where possible to minimise resistance building.
Creeping Oxalis is a small weed that resembles clover with bright yellow flowers. It moves very quickly and is tricky to pull out by hand as the crowns break of leaving the roots in the soil.
Nutgrass, Sedge and Mullimbimby Couch has a rhizomatous root system and a very shiny leaf that resists chemical penetration. For this reason, it is recommended that you use a good quality wetting agent (surfactant) mixed with your chemical.