Cobbler's Pegs Control in Your Garden

Cobbler's Pegs (also known as Farmer's Friends, Pitch-forks and Teasers) are shrub-like plants that can grow about 1 m high. Leaves are green with a serrated edge. Flowers are small and have 5 white petals with a yellow centre. The seeds are long, thin and black with a brown head made up of 2-3 barbs. Seeds readily attach to clothing, shoes and pet fur, allowing them to easily spread around the lawn and garden.

Cobbler's Pegs flower in late summer to autumn.

To control Cobbler's Pegs in a garden, carefully spot spray individual plants with a non-selective weedkiller like Yates Zero Weed Killer 490 g/L Super Concentrate. For a glyphosate-free option spray plants with Yates Zero Triple Strike Garden Weedkiller. Reapply if regrowth occurs. With non-selective weed killers be careful not to spray nearby lawns or plants as it may injure or kill them. To avoid overspray, when spraying keep the nozzle as close to the weed as possible.

Kill any Cobbler's Pegs growing anywhere on or near the property. Kill Cobbler's Pegs before they set seed, otherwise there will more weeds coming up and it will spread further throughout the property.

Apply a pine bark mulch like Yates Dynamic Lifter 4 in 1 Mulch over garden beds and around plants. Mulch helps to reduce weeds, like Dandelions, growing. The added benefits of Yates Dynamic Lifter 4 in 1 Mulch include providing a protective layer over the soil surface, helping to retain soil moisture, enriching the soil with nutrients and organic matter, and encouraging earthworms and beneficial soil microorganisms.  

When out and about, if you notice you have picked up Cobbler's Pegs seeds on your shoes or clothes, on your pets, or even on your vehicle or tools, then pick them off as best you can then place them into the rubbish bin.

To control Cobbler's Peg in a lawn, apply Munns Professional Nutgrass, Mullumbimby Couch & Broadleaf Weed Killer. It's a specialty lawn weed control product that targets hard to kill weeds.