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By the time you can see a weed, it has already won the easy part of the fight. Most of our weed control happens before germination — and the rest happens on the specific weeks each species is most vulnerable.
The mechanics
Almost every disappointing weed-control season comes down to using one of these when the situation called for the other.
Before germination
Pre-emergent
It does not kill seed. It forms a chemical layer that stops the seedling root as it tries to push through, which is why timing is everything: applied late, the seedling is already past the layer. Applied on time, it stops 80–85% of crabgrass before you ever see a blade of it.
Rounds 01 and 02
After it shows
Post-emergent
Systemic herbicide only works as well as the plant is growing. A dandelion in April or October is pumping sugars into its taproot and takes the product with them. The same plant in a July drought barely moves it at all — which is why we do not waste an application then.
Rounds 02, 04, 05 and 07
What’s included
Nutsedge is not a broadleaf. Crabgrass is not a perennial. Wild violet laughs at the product that flattens clover. Naming the plant is most of the work.
Weed identifier
The eight we pull out of local lawns most often, what gives each one away, and where it sits in the treatment year.
Digitaria spp.
Flat, light-green rosettes that sprawl from a central crown, always worst along driveways and south-facing edges where the soil runs hot.
Pre-emergent in round 01 before soil hits 55°F. Once it has tillered, only a selective post-emergent will touch it, and thin turf will just grow it again next year.
Taraxacum officinale
Toothed rosette flat to the ground, hollow stem with milky sap, and a taproot that snaps off below the crown when you pull it.
Systemic broadleaf herbicide in rounds 02 and 07, when the plant is actively moving sugars to that taproot and takes the product with them.
Trifolium repens
Three-part leaves with a pale crescent, spreading by runners into soft mats. Usually a sign the lawn is short on nitrogen.
Clover-rated broadleaf herbicide, paired with a proper feeding program. Fix the nitrogen deficit and the lawn stops inviting it back.
Cyperus esculentus
Glossy yellow-green, grows faster than everything around it, and the stem is triangular when you roll it between your fingers.
Sedges are not grasses and not broadleaves, so ordinary weed control does nothing. Treated with a dedicated sedge herbicide in round 04.
Plantago major
Wide oval leaves with heavy parallel ribs and a rat-tail seed spike. Thrives in compacted paths and play areas.
Broadleaf control in rounds 02 and 07, plus core aeration in round 06. Relieve the compaction and it loses its advantage.
Glechoma hederacea
Scalloped round leaves on square stems, minty when crushed, creeping over the turf in shady damp corners.
One of the toughest to control. Best result comes from the fall application in round 07, repeated across two seasons.
Poa annua
Bright lime patches with white seed heads held just above the mow line, then dead straw the first week the heat arrives.
Fall pre-emergent, because it germinates in autumn rather than spring. Overseeding in round 06 fills the gaps it leaves behind.
Euphorbia maculata
Flat mats of small paired leaves with a red blotch, milky sap when broken, colonising thin dry ground in midsummer.
Caught by the spring pre-emergent barrier. Escapes get a spot treatment in round 04 before the seed sets.
Straight answers
We would rather tell you this now than have you wondering in August.
Keep going
Feed lane
Slow-release nutrition
Seven feedings built around a soil test and weighted to fall, when 80% of root growth actually happens. Colour is the side effect; density is the goal.
How it works
Insect lane
Prevent grubs, scout the rest
Grubs are stopped before they hatch. Surface feeders are found by scouting on every visit and treated the week they turn up.
How it worksNext step
An inspection takes about twenty minutes. You get a soil reading, a written list of what is growing that shouldn’t be, and a price. No obligation, and we will tell you if your lawn does not need us yet.