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Archive for Lawns

It’s Time To Apply Pre Emergent Herbicides To Your Spring Lawn

By Wells Brothers
Thursday, February 4th, 2021

Pre Emergent Herbicides for spring lawns help keep weeds away. Pick up pre emergent herbicides at Wells Brothers, Pet, Lawn and Garden Supply in Plano, Texas.

Now is the best time to apply pre emergent herbicides to your spring lawn. The synthetic products that Wells Brothers recommends are Gallery for the control of broadleaf weeds and Dimension for the grasses. A 10-pound bag of Gallery sells for $29.00 and will cover 2,000 square feet. This application will last around 4 months. Dimension is available in a 12-pound bag that covers 3,500 square feet and in a 35-pound bag that covers 10,000 square feet. Dimension sells for $15.10 in the 12-pound bag and $40.90 in the 35-pound bag. Dimension can be reapplied every 4 weeks.

The all-natural product is called Corn Gluten meal. It comes as a powder and granulated. The powder works faster but is a mess to deal with. The granulated is slower to activate but easier to apply. The application rate for both is 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet. The price this year is $32.00 for a 40-pound bag of powder or granulated.

We get asked a lot about whether to apply pre emergent herbicides and fertilizer at the same time. The answer is you apply one then the other. You do not mix them in the spreader at the same time.

Print our Lawn Product Application Guide for quick reference on when and what to apply to your spring lawn.

Check out our February coupons for savings on synthetic pre emergent herbicides including  Dimension, Gallery, and all-natural Corn Gluten Meal.

*Prices are subject to change.

Categories : Blog, Lawns, News & Updates

Spring Weed Control

By Wells Brothers
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021

It’s time to think about spring weed control here in North Texas. Within a month, it will be time to apply a pre-emergent herbicide to the lawn. The pre-emergent herbicide does one thing and that stops weed seeds from growing. Hence the Latin term “pre”, meaning before. Post-emergent herbicides kill after the plant is growing. Hence, the Latin term “post”, meaning a large stick in the ground that you attach a fence too. You need to determine the square footage of your lawn before heading to Wells Brothers. Also, don’t forget that pre-emergents do not have fertilizer in them.

The synthetic products that Wells Brothers recommends are Gallery for the control of broadleaf weeds and Dimension for the grasses. The 10-pound bag of Gallery will cover 2,000 square feet. This application will last around 4 months. Dimension is available in a 12-pound bag that covers 3,500 square feet and in a 35-pound bag that covers 10,000 square feet. Dimension can be reapplied every 4 weeks.

The all-natural product is called Corn Gluten Meal. It’s available in powder and granulated forms. The powder works faster but is a mess to deal with. The granulated is slower to activate but easier to apply. The application rate for both is 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet and needs to be applied now.

We get asked a lot about applying pre-emergent and fertilizer at the same time. The answer is you apply one then the other. Do not mix them in the spreader at the same time.

Check out the Wells Brothers easy to read schedule for the application of fertilizers and pre-emergent. I hope these will fit your needs. Please note that these are guides. Weather conditions such as rain and heat will alter the timing of these products

 

 

Bermuda Grass – Product Application Guide
St. Augustine Grass - Product Application Guide
St. Augustine Grass – Product Application Guide

Categories : Blog, Lawns, News & Updates

Dick’s Garden Blog – What Is A Weed?

By Wells Brothers
Thursday, December 31st, 2020

weed controlWhat is a weed? The simple answer is anything you don’t want growing. Weeds fall into three categories: grasses like crabgrass, broad leaf-like henbit, and sedges. From here they are broken down into annual or perennial categories. These categories must be known if you are to be victorious in the fight against them. It is also very important to know the type of lawn and how many square feet of lawn you have.

Annual weeds germinate from seed, grow to maturity, and die within twelve months. Crabgrass is an annual summer weed and henbit is an annual winter weed. Annual weeds are best controlled with a properly timed application of pre-emergent herbicides. If we miss the timing, they can also be controlled with post-emergent herbicides.

Perennial weeds live more than one year. They can reproduce from stolons, rhizomes, tubers, and seeds. Pre-emergent herbicides are only used to control the spread of seeds but it will not kill the parent. To rid an area of perennial weeds requires a post-emergent herbicide applied during the active growing season. Dallisgrass is a perennial grassy weed and Dollarweed is an example of a broadleaf. The last category is the sedges. The most common in our area is nutsedge. Sedges need to be treated like perennial weed. To kill the plants, use a post-emergent herbicide that is labeled for the type of sedge you are fighting.

Take a look at our Product Application Guides and learn what to apply and when to apply it, to control weeds and give you a beautiful lawn.

St. Augustine Guide – Click here to view & print

Bermuda Grass Guide –Click here to view & print

 

St. Augustine Grass - Product Application Guide
St. Augustine Grass – Product Application Guide
Bermuda Grass – Product Application Guide

 

Categories : Lawns, News & Updates

Straw vs Hay: What Is The Difference?

By Wells Brothers
Monday, October 12th, 2020

Straw vs hay, what's the difference? Find out in our Wells Brothers blog.This time of the year we get bombarded with questions about using straw vs hay for a given task. Straw is plant stubble from a harvested crop. It’s called straw because it’s hollow. Straw is also a regional product. In north Texas, 99% of the straw is from wheat. The other 1% is typically made from oats. Straw is mainly used for decoration, bedding, erosion control, mulch, and archery backstops. It can also be used as a building material and in composting operations.

Hay is grown as food for livestock. It can be used like straw but is expensive for the task. Most of the hay grown in our area is one of the several types of hybrid Bermuda.

Straw is cheaper than hay. Neither should be considered organic or all-natural. The “why” to the last statement comes up often. The majority of wheat and hay crops are grown with synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and for wheat, fungicides. Organic or all-natural straw and hay are available but scarce and expensive. Both will have seeds in the bales. Straw will grow mainly wheat but it will not be enough to make a sandwich. Anything growing from a bale of hay should be considered a noxious weed. The bottom line is that you would use straw for everything but feeding livestock. The fun part of having bales of straw that are left outside in the weather is, they grow. Remember the Chia Pet?

 

 

Categories : Gardens, Lawns, News & Updates

Fall Leaves – Don’t Bag ‘Em!

By Wells Brothers
Monday, October 12th, 2020

fall leavesFall leaves tend to fall this time of year, are you doing with them? Most folks will bag them, take the bag to the curb and let the city (pick one) take them away to destinations unknown. What they really do is make compost out of them to save room in the landfill. A noble endeavor to be sure but, you can save some of the bagging and trips to the curb if you reuse what Mother Nature has provided. This is not an effort to undermine a city’s recycling programs. This is an effort to make use of the resources that we have available. All that is required is a small amount of your energy and a mulching mower. The mulching mower is kind of critical considering it can take whole leaves as long as 2 years to decompose.

If it sounds like I’m asking everyone to start a compost pile, I’m not. But if composting looks like a good idea, then, by all means, start composting. What I’m talking about is using the fall leaves for something other than city compost. Once leaves have been mulched they make a fantastic soil amendment. For bare areas in the lawn, work 4 or 5 inches of mulched leaves into the soil with a little molasse or high nitrogen fertilizer. Then, cover the area with another 4 to 5 inches of mulched leaves. Come spring it will be ready for seed or sod. 4 – 6 inches of mulched leaves also work well as a pathway material and for frost protection in gardens. When preparing the garden for the next crop, just turn (or till) the pathway into the soil. Need some good organic material in the annual color bed or extra mulch in a flower bed? You guessed it, mulched leaves.

If you have 2 red oaks in the front yard and two Chinese Pistache in the back yard then you will have lots of leaves in lots of bags. But if you try reusing the fallen leaves, then maybe you will have 6 bags instead of 10.

 

 

Categories : Lawns, News & Updates
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