Spring Lawn Care: How to Control Weeds, Feed Your Lawn and Stop Curl Grubs

Discover the three essential spring lawn care jobs: controlling weeds, feeding your lawn and protecting against curl grubs to keep your lawn healthy and green.

Winter is over and your lawn is ready to wake up. As soil temperatures rise and days become longer, spring is the ideal time to tackle the three most important lawn care jobs: controlling weeds, feeding your lawn and protecting it from damaging curl grubs.

With a little attention now, you can set your lawn up for a greener, healthier season ahead.

Control weeds before they take over

Clover is a common broadleaf lawn weed

Spring warmth encourages vigorous lawn growth, but it also triggers common broadleaf lawn weeds such as bindii, clover, cudweed and capeweed.

The best approach is to tackle weeds early, before they flower and spread.

Feed and Weed in One Easy Step

Yates Weed'n'Feed Click & Grow Starter Kit combines selective weed control with lawn fertiliser, helping to kill broadleaf weeds while feeding your lawn for stronger, greener growth.

Benefits include:

Controls common lawn weeds including bindii and clover
Feeds lawns to promote lush green growth
Suitable for common lawn varieties like kikuyu and couch (for buffalo lawns use the buffalo safe Yates Lawn Weed Killer Bindii & Clover Click & Grow Starter Kit)
Treats 260 m² of lawn
Convenient application with the Click & Grow garden care system
The starter kit includes a reusable trigger

Alternatively, choose Yates Weed'n'Feed Weed Killer & Lawn Fertiliser. It provides both lawn weeding and feeding in a handy 4 L hose-on applicator.

Spring Tip: Treat weeds while they are actively growing for the best results and avoid mowing for 7 days before and after application.

Feed your lawn for lush green growth

After winter, lawns can often look pale, thin or lacking vigour. Spring feeding replenishes nutrients, encourages strong root development and healthy lush green growth into the warmer months.

Fast and Easy Feeding

Yates Dynamic Lifter Lawn Food & Soil Improver delivers lawn nutrition using the Click & Grow trigger, making lawn feeding quick and simple.

Benefits include:

Fast-acting nutrients for a green lawn
Slow-release ingredients to promote long term soil health
Treats 210 m² of lawn
Use with a Click & Grow trigger

Granular Nutrition

For gardeners who prefer a granular fertiliser, Yates Dynamic Lifter Lawn Food combines the goodness of chicken manure, blood & bone, fishmeal and seaweed. It provides slow-release nutrients to feed lawns, and the rich formula helps build healthier soil.

Spring Tip: Apply fertiliser when rain is forecast or water in well after applying.

Protect your lawn from curl grubs

Curl grub

If patches of lawn start to become yellow and brown, or lift away from the soil like loose carpet, Curl Grubs may be feeding on the roots below the surface. Curl grubs are the larvae of pests like the African black beetle, live in the soil and chew through lawn roots.

Spring is one of the best times to control lawn grubs before populations increase and serious damage occurs.

Stop Damage Before It Starts

Yates Grub Kill & Protect for Lawns provides protection against common lawn-damaging pests including curl grubs.

Benefits include:

Controls curl grubs, other lawn beetle larvae, and caterpillars like lawn armyworm
Helps prevent root and leaf blade damage
Protects lawn health during the peak spring growing season
Easy application for preventative and curative treatment
Provides up to 6 months of curl grub protection

Spring Tip: Check affected areas by lifting a section of turf and inspecting the soil beneath. You may also see birds pecking at the lawn, searching for grubs. Early curl grub treatment helps minimise lawn damage and speeds recovery.