"Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish" wrote in
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"Dave" wrote in :

On the ongoing saga of clover in my buffalo lawn, I re-sprayed the
clover on Saturday afternoon with Bindii and clover killer in nice
clear skies only to have to pour down with torrential rain about 2
hours later....


I've always had good luck with cutting the clover short then
spreading ammonium sulphate just before light rain.


Hi Holy.

I tried ammonium sulfate on one section of the lawn (though I did not cut
the clover first - its pretty much at ground level so I don't think the
mower would do anything to it anyway).. and guess what - the clover
absolutely loved it! Its never been greener!

Am too scared to try it again - it'd probably take over the house as well as
the lawn!

But... I am having success (at least to some degree) with the clover and the
Bindii/Clover killer....

As one of the other posters suggested, all is not lost after the rain, at
least half of the clover is starting to die back....

I'm giving up for this year as after 3 attempts at poisioning I'm not too
keen to subject the buffalo to another round of posion... next weekend the
thatch comes out and the fertilizer will go on and hopefully we'll get some
rain to water it in!

I think however I've settled on the best combination (at least for my
situation), which I'll try next year:

1) Check soil Ph - adjust if necessary (usually needs some lime coz' I have
sandy soil) early August.
2) Drench spray (ie: all leaves of clover wet, not just a few drops) entire
lawn, using Bin-Die (which is ok for Buffalo - check the bottle!) around mid
august just as the clover is starting to grow.
3) Repeat 1 to 2 weeks later (depending on the weather) when the clover is
just starting to show signs of life again.
4) Wait another week, remove any thatch with a steel rake and fertilize
heavily to encourage the lawn to take back what is rightfully its!
5) Keep it healthy (like thats possible in this drought!) to avoid the
problems to begin with.

Hope this helps those who follow! (The soft leaf buffalo's are great when
they are healthy.... but a bitch to get back to life when not! Don Burke has
a lot to answer for!)

Anyway, thats the theory. Thanx everyone for the help.

Till next year!

Ciao,
Dave.