{"id":265,"date":"2016-06-25T15:17:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/?p=265"},"modified":"2016-06-25T15:17:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T14:17:48","slug":"the-best-time-for-gardeners-to-use-a-lawn-weed-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/the-best-time-for-gardeners-to-use-a-lawn-weed-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Time For Gardeners To Use A Lawn Weed Killer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best time to use lawn weedkiller is in May,when plants are growing at their fastest rate. Particularly if you are using Verdone or a dry phosphate. <\/p>\n<p>All plants have a chemical growth clock which will stop them from outgrowing themselves. Verdone, for example, contains  2-4-D,which alters the growth clock so that the plant will outgrow itself at such a rate that it will collapse(a bit like an overdose of steroids).It will shoot up and look very healthy, but will die after  about three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>You need to be assured of six hours dry weather so that it gets  absorbed into the leaf and not washed away by rain.It is best to  apply it from a can with a very fine rose(such as a Hawes watering  can which have extremely fine roses)which will allow the droplets to  stay on the leaves for quite a while. This is better than using a spray which could drift and kill plants that are not weeds.<\/p>\n<p>As another one of our wide range of services here at GardenAdvice the GardenAdvice Team is offering The Garden Visiting Service to provide you with expert gardening advice at home.<br \/>\nFor further information: <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/visiting.html\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best time to use lawn weedkiller is in May,when plants are growing at their fastest rate. Particularly if you are using Verdone or a dry phosphate. All plants have a chemical growth clock&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}