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29-05-2003, 07:08 PM

in article , John at
wrote on 29/5/03 11:47 am:

Hi,
I have just moved from a centre of town tenemant building to a semi with a
100 foot back garden. I have never done any gardening before but think i'm
going to enjoy it. My first problem though is that my lawn is totally
covered with daisies. Is ther a way to get rid of these without damaging the
grass. I jsut cut it on Sunday and they have sprouted up again already.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and you can bet your bottom dollar
this won't be last question i will be asking. :-)

Congratulations! First step on a new and happy and possibly even addictive,
path! ;-)
Ridding your lawn of all daisies would be a shame, IMO. They're such pretty
little flowers, so you might want to keep some of them and just 'spot kill'
others with a weed killer.
Just don't let children run around on them in bare feet. Bees like daisies,
too!
I think the idea of getting rid of daisies stems from the 'tidy and
everything planted in rows' days of gardening - we were supposed to trample
nature underfoot quite literally. Some people say daisies' low, flat leaves
kill the grass so if that IS a real problem for you, see the spot killer
idea. But no daisies is a bit sad, I think - bit municipal park-ish. We
have two lawns that won't grow them at all and two that do. The two that
don't are both used by customers a lot and one gets wringing wet in winter
so I wonder if that's what means 'no daisies' on those areas.

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Sacha
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