It’s that time of year - wintergrass starting to show up in your lawn? Treat it now for longer lasting results
As the saying goes “One year of seeds brings seven years of weeds!” – This could not be any truer than when it comes to the fight against Winter Grass in your turf. If you have an invasion of Winter Grass, you’ll definitely want to treat it before it germinates. If you allow it to drop its seeds, next winter it will be back, twice as badly as it was the previous year. Best plan of attack is to treat it as soon as it appears.
What should you use?
Winter Grass can be removed very easily by hand as it doesn’t have particularly deep roots and it doesn’t have any runners, growing in simple clumps. Removing it by hand can be somewhat tedious so fortunately there are specifically targeted herbicide controls you can use. Targeting it before it emerges during May is the key to preventing it from germinating and going to seed. A pre-emergent like Oxafert can be applied and it will target the Winter Grass before it emerges from the soil.
Winter Grass Killer is a selective control that will kill Winter Grass by targeting the roots, so it is extremely important to spray early in its life cycle in May before seed heads appear. Once it goes to seed, they will be present again in your turf the following year and the cycle will continue.
We recommend using a combination of a pre-emergent like Oxafert and a selective control like Winter Grass Killer.
