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Posted by gregj Brisbane Aust (My Page) on Tue, Mar 28, 06 at 6:14
| The first question is - I am about to spray my lawn for weeds using Multiweed (by Garden King). I am led to believ that you can spray your whole lawn and it will kill the weeds only and NOT the grass. Is this correct. Last year I used what I thought was a good weed killer and it killed the grass and it took nearly 6 months to recover with these huge brown patches over my lawn.
The second question is - As I live in brisbane and there is Water restrictions (no sprinklers and due to limited time I dont water the lawn) is there a fertiliser that can be put on lawn that requires little or no watering to ensure my lawn has the necessarry nutrients going into winter.
Your comments and ideas will be greatly appreciated,
Greg |
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- Posted by liatris FraserCoast,Qld (My Page) on
Tue, Mar 28, 06 at 15:52
| I don't know of any fertilizer that won't require a reasonable amount of wetting before and after application, sorry, Greg. |
RE: I have 2 question for you to Answer... thanks
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I suppose you could use those liquid ones.
Now the idea in Brissie it's "You wait till it rains "" then you add fertilizer between showers isnt that what most people do, I know we dont get a lot of rain but I find I can feed my bamboo and hibiscus that way, even though we seem to get most of our rain during the evenings. I never water my grass ( not lawn ) its couch so never fertilize it either and it is a wonderful green at present..Do you really need to feed your lawn so it gets plenty of nutrients over the Winter as it does not grow then. You may do better to paint the weedkiller on the leaves of the offending grasses that way only it dies....
Cheers..MM. |
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| I can't see that there would be any point in using any kind of fertiliser until you can water it in thoroughly. It will just sit on top of hard dry ground, and possibly burn the foliage. |
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- Posted by pos02 NSW Aust (My Page) on
Thu, Mar 30, 06 at 0:52
| Is your lawn Buffalo? I believe you need to be careful when choosing weed killer on these grasses, because they will kill the grass also. If you sprinkle a small amount of fertiliser on the lawn and hand water, it should be OK. The trick is to push it below the leaves. Next time it rains it should soak into the soil. I don't believe you can have a truely wonderful lawn during droughts. All you can do is stop it from dying off and hope the drought finally ends. Until we get native indigenous lawns, we will always have this problem. |
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