Lawn Grassy Weeds
A patchy lawn can be due to weeds that invade your lawn. Keep your cutting height right for your type of grass, and weeds will find it difficult to get established. There are two sorts, broad leaved weeds and grassy weeds. |
Grassy weeds are particularly difficult to control. They appear as unsightly clumps of different colour and text grass, and because they are clump forming, they outgrow other grasses.
If any of the grasses below are seen in your lawn, they will not respond (apart from Nutsedge) to selective weed killers, so you will need specialist help to eradicate them.
Nutsedge Looks like grass, but never spreads. When it flowers, the problem increases. So get the selective weed killer down before it flowers. |
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Meadow grass (annual) This grass grows between about September and April. Our pre emergent weed killer will control and eliminate this grass. This should be applied in the Autumn. If Meadow grass appears at other times of the year, it is best pulled out by hand, before it flowers. |
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Meadow Grass | ||
Crabgrass (annual) |
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Goosegrass (annual) Goosegrass is a very troublesome grassy weed in athletic fields, golf greens, tees and fairways, and in other turfgrasses that are mowed short. It germinates when soil temperatures reach 60 to 65°F, and requires moisture and light for germination. Goosegrass has a prostrate growth habit, and is often white in the center with a wagon-wheel like appearance. Unlike crabgrass, it does not root at the nodes, but grows well in compacted soils. It competes very successfully with warm-season and cool-season turfgrasses during summer months and is most competitive in thin, open turfs and turfs subject to intense traffic or use. See our pre emergent weed killer for control, and this may need to be applied a few times per year. |
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Quack Grass |
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Perennial ryegrass |
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Wild Oat |
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Foxtail |
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