Many weeds that appear in our lawns are known as broadleaf weeds. Weeds are unfortunately a common part of looking after a lawn and you will likely come across them at some point. When this does happen, it’s a good idea to have a reliable product on hand so you can treat the weeds as soon as they appear.
How to Identify Broadleaf Weeds
Broadleaf weeds are a group of plants that generally have broad, flat leaves. They come in a range of sizes, shapes, and textures. These weeds are often easily distinguishable from the grass in your lawn.
Some common examples include creeping oxalis, clover, chickweed, plantain, and catsear. These weeds can look very different to each other but will have significant contrast in appearance to that of your lawn or other invading grass-type species.
First, properly identifying the weeds in your lawn is essential for selecting the appropriate treatment methods and will help ensure the products or methods used are successful. You can identify some common lawn weeds we come across in South Australia here.
Treating Broadleaf weeds in your lawn
For a few scattered weeds, hand-pulling or spot-treating with a non-selective herbicide, carefully avoiding contact with the grass is a quick and easy solution. If the weeds have spread profusely or are difficult to pull out by hand, a broadleaf herbicide may be required. Broadleaf herbicides are a type of weed killer specifically designed to target and control broadleaf weeds.
Estate Herbicide
ESTATE® Herbicide is Syngenta’s new powerful combination of three active ingredients for effective broad-spectrum control of hard-to-kill weeds such as bindii and white clover. Effective across a broad range of warm and cool season turf species, including Buffalo, Kikuyu and Fescue.
Estate is a great low-cost herbicide to have on hand for when common broadlef weeds make an appearance in your lawn.
Estate Herbicide can treat the following: White Clover (Trifolium repens), Plantain (Plantago lanceolata), Capeweed (Arctotheca calendula), Cat’s Ear (Hypochoeris radicata), Bin-dii (Jo-Jo, Onehunga) (Soliva sessilis), Cudweed (Gnaphalium spp.) Creeping Oxalis (Oxalis corniculata.
Estate comes in a 250ml concentrate that will cover up to 500m2.
