Lawn and Turf Care: identify lawn weeds

Weed Identification and Control

Weeds are one of the most common and frustrating lawn care problems. This website has tips and advice on preventing and controlling weeds as well as countless images to help identify the weeds causing you problems.

Lawn and Turf Aeration

Aerating the lawn is one of the most beneficial tasks for the lawn. It helps create a healthy growing environment in the soil and eliminates many lawn care problems. We have information on the different types of aeration and the benefits of each.

Thatch

Thatch is the accumulation of organic matter between the grass plant and the soil. Although a small amount is acceptable and is beneficial to the lawn, too much can cause major problems.

Creating a Problem Free Lawn

Most gardeners desire a thick green carpet of grass, free of weeds, moss and other common lawn problems. This is easier to achieve than most people think.

Feeding the Lawn

All lawns require feeding at various points throughout the year to help maintain good turf vigour. We have tips and advice on what fertiliser to apply for the optimum results.

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Sunday, 3 June 2012

Lawn weed identification

It is important too that the weeds in your lawn have been identified correctly when taking action against them.

This is especially true prior to weed control using chemicals in the form of selective weed killers.

Although modern weed killers or herbicides are formulated to control a wide spectrum of weeds, there may be certain weeds that are resistant to various products.

If the wrong product is applied, it will prove ineffective against the weeds in the lawn, and will be a waste of time and money.

Therefore is is always best to correctly identify turf weeds, so you can choose the product that will give the optimum results and remove those causing you problems.

Using the chart below you can click on the relevant picture, this will take you to another page with information and images of your chosen weed.