Freezing, mowing, flooding and cutting are the methods to disrupt cattails from its root system. Find some effective ways that help you to remove weeds and kill cattails from your lake and pond and keep it clean always.

1. Know How Do You
Kill Cattails?
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2. Those who want to kill cattails will have to disrupt its root system
through freezing, mowing, flooding, cutting, and other combined
methods.
When these methods are done at the best time, private lake and pond
owners can control these cattails without using chemicals with work
sessions done every few years. These herbicides and chemicals can
harm not just aquatic and semi-aquatic plants and animals, but also
swimmers when they are not applied properly. In most cases, these
chemicals come with restrictions when it comes to watering livestock,
fishing, and swimming.
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3. List of chemical-free control methods
for killing cattails:
• Mowing and cutting• Mowing and cutting
• Freezing and flooding• Freezing and flooding
• A Combination of Methods• A Combination of Methods
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4. Mowing and cutting
o If you want to mow or cut the cattails in the pond, you
need to make sure that you do it at the right time.
o If you cut them during the summer, it will only stimulate
their growth which isn’t exactly what you want to happen.
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5. Mowing and cutting
o Since your goal is to kill cattails, you need to wait until
summer is almost over. If you make it a habit to cut cattails
slightly below the water line at least twice or thrice per
season, only a few number of cattails will grow back come
next year.
o This is because cutting will make it difficult for the roots to
access and store food. Cutting them in the winter also has
little to no effect on the roots.
o It is highly recommended that you use a gas-powered
weed cutter or weed rake for lakes when cutting or
mowing cattails.
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6. Freezing and Flooding
Most private ponds and lakes have built-in
water control devices. These machines are
useful in managing not just cattails, but
also other aquatic plants. To control or kill
cattails, reduce the amount of water in the
pond until the water levels are lowered
during the growing season of these aquatic
plants to prepare it for cutting and
mowing. You can also freeze the roots
partially during fall season when the water
levels are left low and drawn down.
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7. A Combination of Methods
To make the treatment even more effective, you can combine
any of the four cattail control methods.
Case in point, if you combine cutting and mowing with
freezing, it increases the chances of completely removing
cattails. That said, private owners of ponds and lakes should
schedule the cattail control beforehand, taking into
consideration that these aquatic plants can be eliminated
through seasonal freezing.
Other factors that should be considered when killing or
controlling cattails are: wildlife uses, disposal of dredged
material, and seasonal weather.
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8. Jenson Lake Mower
One highly recommended product that will definitely cure every pond
owner’s problems with these aquatic plants is the Jenson Lake Mower.
This can reach weeds that are in the deep parts of the lake and pull them
out so it will take some time for them to grow back. Lake or pond owners
can attach the Jenson Lake Mower on the side of their boat for effortless
weed cutting.
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9. Name:
Jenson Technologies Development Corporation
Phone:
(512) 393-5073
Toll Free:
(888) 298-LAKE
E-mail:
info@lakemower.com
URL:
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