A Practical Guide on Our Weed Weapon Range
Weeds come in all shapes and sizes and keeping them out of your garden can be a back breaking task. That’s why Kiwicare has developed an extensive range of weed control products, designed to help you get the upper hand in the backyard battle and free up your time for the more important things in life.
This article will walk you through the key products in our Weed Weapon range and the benefits they provide. It also provides a handy table that compares the key features of each product to help you quickly and easily select the right product for your needs.
Our Weed Weapon products and what they do
Weed Weapon Extra Strength
This herbicide is fast-acting and kills a broad range of stubborn weeds to the root including agapanthus, gorse, convolvulus, broadleaf weeds, grasses and more. You will start to see visible results in just two days (instead of the two weeks you’d normally expect when using a basic herbicides). This product is available in both ready use spray and concentrate. Just 1 litre of concentrate makes up 80 litres of spray, enough to treat up to 800 square meters of weeds (approximately the same size as three tennis courts).
Weed Weapon Long Term
This product kills weeds quickly and then prevents weeds from emerging in sprayed areas for up to 365 days making it ideal for paths, driveways, fence lines and other non-cultivated areas. Weed Weapon Long Term kills a wide range of grasses, broadleaf weeds, oxalis, daisies and more right down to the root. This product comes in both a ready to use spray and concentrate form.
Weed Weapon Natural Power
This quick and effective weed killer provides organic control of a wide range of weeds, clovers, algae, and mosses. Weed Weapon Natural Power is a Non-Glyphosate, BioGro® Certified Organic weed killer that provides visual results in just 3 hours. It is also safe for use around fruit and vegetables.
Weed Weapon Rapid Action
This rapidly acting weed killer is ready to use and will kill 99% of weeds down to the roots, with visual results starting to show in just two hours. It is also effective against hard to kill, waxy leaved weeds like agapanthus, Ivy's, grasses, making this an extremely popular product in our range.
Weed Weapon Woody Weeds
Kills a wide range of tough woody and herbaceous weeds including thistles, blackberry, gorse, broom, fennel, privet, ivy, willow, dock, hedge parsleys, ragwort, nightshade. This systemic action helps to ensure that the treated woody weeds don’t re-emerge once removed.
Weed Weapon Stump Stop Gel
This is a ready to use gel herbicide that you simply brush onto a freshly cut tree stump to kill it to the root. This product prevents regrowth and makes stumps easier to remove. It’s effective on a wide range of tree stumps including willow, poplar, privet, oak and many more.
Weed Weapon Invade Gel
This herbicide controls hardy weeds with systemic action that kills down to the roots. It has a ready to use, built in brush allows effortless application to the cut ends of weeds and their leaves. This product kills a wide range of woody weeds and is also highly effective against creeping weeds including nightshade, bindweed, broom, willow and more. It can also be used to spot treat invasive coarse grasses in lawns like kikuyu, paspalum, couch/twitch and poa.
Weed Weapon Preventer
This product provides long term prevention of the emergence of a wide range of weeds in flowerbeds, pots, and other places for up to 3 months. It won’t harm established ornamentals and trees and is ideal for use in garden beds and pots, around established ornamentals, shrubs, and trees. Applied as granules and watered in- no mixing required.
Product Comparison Weed Weapon products and what they do
Product | Kills | Safe for children and pets once dry | Rainfast in 2 hours | Systemic (kills to the root) | Fast Visual Results | Short Acting (re-plant in 5 days) | Longer Term Control
| Organic & Safe Around Fruit & Veg |
Agapanthus, gorse, thistle, convolvulus and a wide range of broadleaf grasses and weeds. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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A wide range of grasses, broadleaf weeds, oxalis, daisies and more. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
A wide range of weeds, clovers, algae, and mosses. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
Hard to kill, waxy leaved weeds like agapanthus, Ivy's grasses as well as a wide range of weeds and grasses. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Woody and herbaceous weeds including thistles, blackberry, gorse, broom, fennel, privet, ivy, willow, dock, hedge parsleys, ragwort, nightshade. | Yes | Yes | ||||||
Tree stumps including willow, poplar, privet, oak and many more. | Yes | Yes | ||||||
Woody and creeping weeds including nightshade, bindweed, broom, willow and more. | Yes |
| Yes | |||||
N/A prevents new wed growth | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Useful Definitions
Herbicides that are safe for children and pets
All our Weed Weapon products are safe for children and pets once they have dried after being applied (note some products need to be applied, then watered in and then dry before being safe).
Rainfast in 2 hours
Most are also rainfast in 2 hours, meaning that once they’ve had time to dry, the product will continue to stick to the plant and work regardless of it rains or you regularly water your garden. This means it’s a sound investment that won’t get washed away the minute the weeds get wet.
Short Acting & Biodegradable
Many of our herbicides are short acting and biodegradable meaning they breakdown in the soil shortly after application. This means that after a weed has been treated, it can typically be pulled out and new planting in that area can occur, just 5 to 7 days after a weed has been treated.
Systemic
A systemic herbicide is a herbicide that kills the full weed right down to the roots (not just the leaves and everything above soil). This means that once a weed is pulled out, any roots left in the soil will not sprout new growth.