Professional Pesticide Advice

Being a turf care professional is not an easy job.

Getting the right advice, first time and on time is paramount, especially when you have have the vagaries of the weather to contend with.

We promise to be technically correct, accurate and fair and support our verbal technical advice with written information if required. There are many technical pages and posts and leaflets that are free to print off on a complete range of weed control subjects.

There are specialist turf companies and there are specialist pesticide consultant and operatives but in our experience, there are very few, if any, that can combine both of these requirement to deliver a very specialist service to the turf industry. We believe that Weed Free offers an extremely succinct professional and exacting service.

Should you have a total weed control project, require industrial weed control services, pesticide training, or turf weed control and treatments, you have found your ideal industrial weed control company with a working farm site based in Berkshire with great close access to Surrey, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and beyond.

Mike Seaton - Managing Director of Weed Free started his turf culture career at Wellington College based in Berkshire, joining the grounds Grounds Department.

He commenced his Institute of Groundsmanship technical qualifications, completing his National Diploma in Turf Culture Degree in 1991. After a spell as Head Groundsman at the Preparatory school of Wellington College, Eagle House School in Sandhurst, he decided to go contracting for a Sports Turf contractor, looking after various professional, semi professional and amateur sporting facilities in South West London.

With a desire to go into technical sales, he spent £10.00 on a job advert in The Groundsman Magazine to be offered a job in the sales office at T Parker & Sons based in Worcester Park. After a year there, a Sales Office Managers job came up at Rigby Taylor Limited based in Guildford.

Seven years later after managing the Guildford office and Warwick office for this length of time, he decided to leave in March 1994 to work on Weed Free full time, buying a Kawasaski Mule fitted with a 300 Lts Hardi Sprayer - the Kawasaki Mule and sprayer are still going strong however they no longer operate in our daily service since the introduction of the developing Spraying Mantis fleet.

We are able to utilise over twenty years of practical hands on experience and knowledge by providing pesticide help and advice through this Weed Free website.

Should you require advice about your lawns rather than the golf course in your back garden, please visit our lawn blog Grass Clippings, part of www.lawn.co.uk.

Should you require Turf Consultancy for a sport turf or lawn area, please email us the details of your enquiry.

If you have a turf, grass or weed problem, we are confident that you have come to the right place something that we hope you will find comforting that the search is over finally - phew!

(January 2017)

Comments

[Mark O'Halloran]

Hello,
I have a Japanese Knotweed problem at my place of work and would like a price to eradicate it.

Reply - If the JNW vegetation is not too tall and we can spray above it, it is a lot easier and less time consuming but the usual route is to inject single stems (if single plants above chest height). If foliar spraying more than one application is required. We have successfully killed clumps of it after two treatments locally, some sprayed, some injected, some both.

Please email [email protected] and we can arrange a time to look at the sites.

[kate]

Hi i work on a Golf course and was wondering what technologieds can be used to recycle grass clippings. As you are mowing the course everyday you will have a build up of clippings. What methods can be used.

Thanks

Reply - You can buy tractor mounted via PTO composters for green waste. You could also tip them into a green waste recycling bin that the local authority will take away. When I wlak around my local golf course, I see lots of piles in the rough. You could build a big composting area but it all takes time and effort. Grass clippings make a great mulch for amenity flower beds, once the liquid has dried out a little and smell has worn off.

[jonny]

Hi I have my pa6 in a week,
I was just wondering the procedure of filling up your knapsack after you've calculated your calibration sheet?

Many thanks

Reply - half fill with required amount of water, add product, fill to required level of water / spray volume, agitate and spray.