25/08/2026
Those prickles that ruin summer are forming right now.
Bindii sits flat and soft in the lawn all winter, then sets its seed the moment it warms up. Once that seed hardens, nothing you spray will soften it. You just wait it out, barefoot, until it drops.
So this is the fortnight:
1. Look for flat, feathery, carrot-top leaves in the thin and worn patches. No prickle yet, and that's the point.
2. Spray while it's still soft, with a bindii and clover product. Check the label against your grass type, especially on buffalo.
3. Water the lawn the day before you spray, not after. A plant that's growing takes it up properly.
4. Look again in three weeks and hit the late ones.
It's worst in the thin, sandy lawns down the river, Ulmarra through Maclean and out to Yamba.
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