Using Pre and Post Emergent Weed Killers for Lawn Care in Lake Charles

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Using Pre and Post Emergent Weed Killers for Lawn
Care in Lake Charles

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• If you need services for lawn care in Lake
  Charles and the surrounding areas, we are just a
  call away. We will help you with weed control,
  grass cutting services and much more.
• Next to pests, weeds are the biggest nuisance in
  your lawn. They compete for nutrients with your
  grass and plants. Thankfully, there are many
  herbicide products that you can use, both pre
  emergent and post emergent, to keep the weeds
  under control.
• Of course, the choice of the best pre and post
  emergent herbicides depends on the type of weed
  that is prevalent in a certain area. For example,
  our customers in Lake Charles mostly contend with
  weeds such as dollar weed, goosegrass, mock
  strawberry, spurge, lawn burweed, thistle, wild
  geranium and doveweed, to name but just a few of
  them.
• The best time to start controlling weeds is
  before they emerge. That way, they will not
  partake any of the nourishment that you have
  provided for your grass and other lawn plants.
  However, even the best pre-emergent measures
  cannot extinguish all the weeds. Therefore, a
  post emergent herbicide must be used on the weeds
  as soon as they emerge from the soil.

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Pre-emergent weed killers

• Pre-emergent weed control products can be applied
  in liquid or granular form. They should then be
  watered in so that they can seep into the soil.
  Such products work by suffocating the seed so
  that it does not germinate.
• Pre emergent herbicides are applied in late fall,
  early winter or early spring when the soil
  temperatures are still lower than 60 F to
  prevent germination. However, this is also the
  time that most lawn maintenance services advise
  their customers to plant their lawn seeds to
  catch the spring bloom. Thus, there can be no
  room for error when selecting the pre emergent
  herbicide because you do not want to kill your
  good seeds.

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• Pre emergent weed control is the best weed
  prevention measure you can adopt for your lawn.
  In any case, even if you apply it after the weeds
  have emerged, it will not be for nothing. Because
  you do not know where the weeds will germinate,
  it is important that you apply your pre emergent
  over the entire lawn.
• We recommend that you let a lawn care company do
  this job for you, from the selection of the best
  pre-emergent to its application. It is paramount
  that you do everything correctly so that the weed
  killer can stay potent for up to 10 weeks.
• If you are concerned about weed problems in your
  lawn, contact TCLS today for a treatment program
  that will work for your lawn.

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Post emergent weed killers for lawn care in Lake
Charles

• Post emergent herbicides are best applied in the
  beginning of spring to kill the weeds soon after
  they start coming out of the ground. For lawn
  care in Lake Charles, we advise our clients to
  take pictures of the weeds and send them to us.
  That way, we can select the best post emergent
  herbicide for their lawn. Alternatively, we can
  send a lawn maintenance services team to take
  control of the situation.
• If they are applied right, the post emergent weed
  control herbicides kill all types of weeds. These
  include annual and perennial weeds, grassy and
  broadleaf weeds.

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• The main difference between the application of
  the post emergent and pre emergent weed killers
  is that for the post-emergent one, you can just
  apply to the spot that has weeds. Thus, you do
  not need to apply the weed killer to the entire
  lawn.
• For lawn care in Lake Charles, we advise lawn
  owners on the best timing to apply their post
  emergent weed killers. Most, if not all weeds,
  are best killed when they are very tender. If you
  do not want to apply the weed killer repeatedly,
  get the weeds soon after they germinate. Grown
  weeds will require you to apply the weed killer
  repeatedly to kill them.
• Post emergent weed control does not happen just
  once. You continue applying weed control products
  at different times of the year. However, to
  prevent the growth of weeds in spring, you may
  apply a post-emergent on your lawn in fall.

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Why you should only use a specific herbicide for
post-emergent weed control

• Landscaping companies will use a non-specific
  herbicide when they are clearing a whole area for
  fresh landscaping. However, as a lawn owner, you
  just want to kill the weeds and not everything on
  the lawn. That is why you should only use a
  specific herbicide that kills weeds only without
  causing harm to the surrounding plants. If youre
  looking for lawn care in Lake Charles and the
  surrounding areas, consult with TCLS so that you
  do not harm all of your plants with a
  post-emergent herbicide.

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Contact us

• Address Tender Care Lawn ServiceAddress 1497 W
  Houston River Rd,Sulphur, LA 70663Telephone 337-
  313-3002