Freehand | Pre-emergent Herbicide

Freehand Herbicide

You have better things to do than weed!

• Controls over 60 weeds
• For pots, gardens and turf
• Easy to use

Freehand herbicide introduces a new active ingredient for use in landscape ornamentals - dimethenamid-P - combined with pendimethalin.

This unique combination makes Freehand herbicide the perfect tool for pre-emergent weed control of annual grasses, susceptible sedge species and many small-seeded broadleaf weeds.

Freehand herbicide:

• Combines two active ingredients for a broader range of control.
• Delivers excellent residual control in pots and containers, stopping weeds as they germinate.
• Offers a wide range of plant species tolerance and use sites.
• Provides exceptional rate flexibility.

Its two unique active ingredients, pendimethalin and dimethenamid-P, prevent weeds from growing and multiplying by inhibiting cell growth in seedling shoots and impeding plant cell microtubule assembly in roots.

This powerful herbicide is labelled for the control and suppression of more than 60 of the toughest, most troublesome weeds; promoting higher quality and more marketable plants, and more attractive turf.

What is pendimethalin and dimethenamid-P?

Pendimethalin is a herbicide of the dinitroaniline class used in pre-emergen and post emergence applications to control annual grasses and certain broadleaf weeds. It inhibits the ability for weeds to germinate and re appear in lawns and gardens.

Features and Benefits

Broad spectrum weed control

Freehand is a unique combination of two modes of action (Groups D and K) for broader spectrum weed control and resistance management.

Freehand is safe on a broad range of ornamental crops and warm season turfs and provides up to three months of control and suppression of over 60 of the most toughest weeds.

Easy to use

Freehand’s granular formulation and excellent particle distribution allows for easy spreading and flexible application rates. Freehand can be applied at 10-20 g/m2 depending on target weeds.

Excellent residual control

One application of Freehand provides residual control that stops weeds as they germinate for up to three months, giving season long weed control.

Freehand is also very stable on the soil surface and does not need to be watered in immediately. Rainfall or irrigation will move the product to the target site and activate the herbicide maintaining long lasting weed control.

Freehand controls over 60 common weeds:

• Amaranth
• Annual nettles
• Annual ryegrass
• Barnyard grass
• Bittercress
• Blackberry nightshade
• Bladder ketmia
• Brazilian white eye
• Button grass
• Caltrop
• Chickweed
• Common heliotrope
• Common verbena
• Creeping oxalis
• Crested goosefoot
• Crowsfoot grass
• Crowsweed
• Cudweed
• Dandelion
• Deadnettle
• Early spring grass
• Fat hen
• Fleabane
• Flickweed
• Fumitory
• Giant or Black Pigweed
• Green fat hen
• Green summer grass
• Guinea grass
• Indian hedge mustard
• Liverwort
• Mintweed
• Mossman River grass
• Native millet
• Pale pigeon grass
• Paspalidium
• Pennyroyal
• Pepper grass
• Peppercress
• Pigweed
• Poa Trivialis
• Prickly lettuce
• Queensland blue grass
• Red caustic creeper
• Red Flinders grass
• Scarlet pimpernel
• Scrambling speedwell
• Shepherd‘s purse
• Signal grass
• Small burr grass
• Stagger weed
• Stink grass
• Stonecrop
• Subteranneum clover
• Summer grass
• Toad rush
• Turnip weed
• Weeping love grass
• White clover
• WIld hops/Apple of Peru
• Wild mustard
• Wild radish
• Willow Herb
• Winter grass
• Wireweed

Where can I use Freehand?

Freehand herbicide can be used in your pots, plant containers or applied to your garden soil.

Freehand can also be used on warm season turf:

• Hybrid Couch
• QLD Blue Couch
• Carpet Grass
• Kikuyu
• Buffalo
• Zoysia

How and when to apply Freehand Herbicide Rates

Ornamentals, containers and in ground

Apply 10g per sq metre.

Freehand may be applied individually to each pot, or pots can be grouped together and distributed using a granule applicator or gloved hand. After application, ensure granules are brushed or washed off the foliage.

Turf

10g per sq m or 1kg per 1kg per 100m.

Ensure area is clean of debris before application. Freehand may be applied and distributed using a granule applicator or gloved hand. Oscillating spout or rotary type fertiliser spreaders are recommended for large areas.

Even application is important for good weed control.
If using a granule applicator, ensure they are properly calibrated to apply granules evenly.

Freehand application should be followed by irrigation or rainfall, before weeds germinate. If Freehand is not activated by rainfall or irrigation within 30 days, erratic weed control may result.