Herbicides

Dealing with difficult lawn weeds

Dealing with difficult lawn weeds

Weeds. They're the unwelcome guests in our gardens, appearing seemingly out of nowhere and threatening to overtake our lawns. But fear not! Armed with the right knowledge and strategies, you can turn the tide against even the most stubborn weeds. One crucial aspect of...

A Guide to Pre-emergent Herbicides and How They Work

A Guide to Pre-emergent Herbicides and How They Work

A lush, weed-free lawn is one of our major lawn goals. Achieving this can seem like a non stop process of back breaking weed pulling but it doesn’t have to be. Not only do we have herbicides to kill existing weeds but a pre-emergent can prevent a weed (particularly...

Create a Barricade against Winter grass this Autumn

Create a Barricade against Winter grass this Autumn

When it comes to Winter it’s a great time to sit back and relax, leaving the lawn to almost fend for itself, but there’s always a few pesky weeds that pop up during this time that need to be sorted out quick smart. Broadleaf weeds like Bindii can be easily knocked...

Wintergrass, say goodbye for good

Wintergrass, say goodbye for good

Winter grass or Poa annua is exactly as the scientific or botanical name describes it. Poa meaning grass and annua meaning annual. In this blog we deep dive into the weed that is wintergrass, exploring its life cycle, ways to treat it both curative and preventative,...

Nutgrass- A profile and how to kill nutgrass

Nutgrass- A profile and how to kill nutgrass

Nutgrass, more like not grass. It is after all actually a sedge and while it does have some similarities, it is also very different. Here we discuss some of the differences, why it's so hard to kill nutgrass, how to make sure you get rid of it and how to reduce the...

Creeping Oxalis and why you may not have been able to kill it

Creeping Oxalis and why you may not have been able to kill it

What exactly is a weed? Well, it's basically a plant that's growing where we don't want it and while Creeping oxalis isn't exactly the fastest grower and it doesn’t have spikes that ruin your backyard cricket game like bindii but it is something that has been slowly...

How to control bindii in your lawn, like a pro

How to control bindii in your lawn, like a pro

When Sun Zhu said “know thy enemy” I'm sure in part he was probably referring to bindii, that painful thorn that ravages backyard cricket games, super soaker fights every Summer across Australia. Ok, I’m willing to concede that maybe he wasn't but it's an idea that is...