Six Tips for Lawn Weed Control

The secret to a healthy, lush, green lawn is effective weed control. Lawns can be green with weeds, but they rarely look lush and healthy. Invest some time to improve your lawn and flower beds, while keeping your home at top value in the marketplace.

Killing Weeds with a Pre-Emergent Weed Application

No program for killing weeds is complete without a winter's ending pre-emergent weed application. This helps to reduce weeds from the beginning of the spring growing cycle. This will also kill the weeds down to the root level while allowing your lawn to to spread and choke out the possibility of sustained weed growth in the spring.

Killing Lawns and Weeds Alike

Seems counter intuitive, but if you already have a weed infestation it is often easier to start from scratch. This will enable you to kill weeds and grass, rake up thatch, turn and amend the soil as well as as pick the best grass for your region.

Killing Weeds in Gardens, Beds, Pine Islands and Woods

Another hot tip for keeping weeds down is to eliminate them from areas around your lawn. Using a pump sprayer and a weed killer, like Round-Up, makes weeding these areas quick and effective.

Weeds spread by seed both airborne and in animal droppings. They also can propagate through rain, humans and pets. So by eliminating the close sources keeps them from spreading rapidly.

Re-seeding and Re-fertilizing a Lawn to Effectively Reduce Weeds

Re-seeding and re-fertilizing your lawn on set schedules helps to keep lawns thick and doesn't allow weeds to gain a foothold in your lawn. Don't be stingy in this area with either quantity or quality.

If your grass doesn't fill in properly giving it a proper start you defeat your good intentions and weeds will abound everywhere.

Summer Mowing to Kill Weed Growth

Keep your lawn a bit long in the summer for two reasons. It helps to maintain moist soil essential to grass growth and shades the soil not allowing weeds to get the needed sunlight to start their growth.

Don' t Water in A Drought

If you water in a drought and run out you will give weeds a foothold to sprout quickly when the water wains and your grass goes dormant. You will have a green lawn but it will be solid weeds.

This should give you the basics for weed control. Remember mom didn't say go out and weed just to keep you busy as there was a purpose behind that chore.