| Weeding a Lawn |
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The key to fighting weeds in your lawn is make the conditions favourable for the grass and unfavourable for the weeds. This can be acheived by cutting your grass at its optimum height and keeping it healthy by fertilising and aerating the ground once or twice a year. If weeds do take hold in your lawn, you have the option of hand weeding or using chemical herbicides. Chemical herbicides are either broad spectrum or selective. Broad spectrum herbicides such as roundup will kill everything including your lawn. These should only be spot applied to the weeds, being careful not to overspray onto the surrounding lawn. Selective herbicides such as bindii killer and weed n feed target specific weeds. They will usually kill most broad leaf weeds and leave your grass intact. Most selective herbicides are salt based. The principle is that the salt will sit on the broad leaf weeds causing them to die. The vertical growing grasses will shed enough of the salt to survive. Be very careful using selective herbicides on buffalo and kikuyu lawns. Those grasses have a broader leaf and spaying a selective herbicide on them could kill your entire lawn!. There are special selective herbicides that can be used specifically for buffalo and kikuyu lawns.
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