generally what the companies mean when they say it doesn't need to be watered in is that it won't burn the lawn if it isn't watered in straight after application but it still needs to be watered to become active in the soil.i think you will find most of the fertilizers that say to water well after application can burn the grass damaging the lawn if they aren't watered in
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some of the fertilizers constituents may burn the grass if left on dry, i.e the ammonium nitrate. so it is best to water it in.
secondly nutrient is only available to plants when it is in solution, so without the water it is useless.
If they say it does not need watering in it will remain inactive until it rains.
This is for chemical fertilizers.
For organic feritilizers they also need water to be available, but the soil life will also take them down and break them up, but these are not available until they have been converted to there salt form or via the nitrogen cycle.
Short of digging it up and leaving craters throughout a lawn does anyone know of a herbicide that will do really well on paspalum?
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Yeah I should have added - it's all through my backyard lawn which is kikuyku.
you can try very carefully painting glypho if you have big areas you could try spraying these the kikuyu should grow back if your careful otherwise try digging it out i have a small mattock type thing i use mainly for this and weeding ,with paspalum you only have to remove the main crown you don't have to dig down very deeply and once you get most of it out it is fairly easy to keep under control but the initial digging can be a pain so good luck
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I've had pretty good results from Feed n Weed (or weed n feed) from Big W. Works well on dandelions, lambs tongue, cobblers pegs, Singapore daisy and some other weeds that I don't know the name of. Not as effective on clover though.
clover is hard to get rid of what you need to do is fert the grass andd get the grass to out grow the clover and the hard part there is that customers dont water there yard properly.
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That's not really a problem at this time of year in N.Q. but you're right most people are too lazy or tight or C.B.F. watering in the dry season and that is why they have weeds in their lawn.
Other thing is (in my experience) customers don't want to pay me to fertilise then pay me to mow it afterwards. One of my customers lawns is about 80% weeds. I told her how to fix it and a rough ball park figure on what it would cost and she was horrified. She found it was easier and cheaper for her to blame me for all the weeds in her yard. (whingeing old bee-ach)
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not even from your area quite, but i am a lawn care pro here and belong to several forums.
can you guys get the chemical carfentrazone? that is sold here under the name quicksilver, and it comes premixed with a 4 way herbicide called speedzone. dont know if you can get it, or if it is able to be sprayed on your varieties of turf. i am pretty sure bermudgrass is ok.
you may not have this, but if you do, it is ultimate on clover. carfentrazone is like an additive to a traditional three way herbicide and acts like a booster and really knocks all the unwanteds like you mention in about 24 hrs, total death in one week.
Hello all. Lawn guy from Florida here. The above product (quicksilver) is an excellent "kicker" for the weeds. I purchase it separately and add it to manor (metsulfuron). If you're not, try and add a surfactant to the herb mix. This will increase the efficiency of the herbicide (works great with fungicides and pesticides too.)
If weeds are severe, I also add 1/2 pound of ammonium nitrate to the back pack. (3-4 US gallons)
Anyone know the best place to get Sampra in Brisbane. I have found it to be the best thing for Nut Grass. Of course if anyone has a better solution I am all ears.
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