On Jul 30, 2:00 pm, "Cat(h)" wrote:
On Jul 30, 1:34 pm, Des Higgins wrote:



On Jul 30, 6:32 am, tbg wrote:

One mans meat is another mans poison, hence, I have decided to poison
the weed with a vigorous effort by attacking it with a selective
weedkiller with a follow up treatment later on.

In addition I shal make efforts to improve the general well being of
the lawn by aeration etc.

Now, wheres my nearest stockist of a large box of 2,4 dichlorophenoxy
acetate, prunella vulgaris will be vulgar no more, it will be dead.

Rgds

You could just use tarmac or if you want a green look, try astroturf
or just get an apartment with no garden.

:-) Some people have too much time on their hands, or plan to use
their lawns for putting practice.
My lawn is chocfull of weeds, including the selfheal in question, a
couple of patches. Lots of daisies, and white clover, the odd
thistle, docks and god knows what else.
But when clipped tight - which weather permitting I try to do every
week end - it looks lovely and densely green, and it is particularly
nice for a kickaround, or even to lie out on on the couple of days in
the year that that odd shiny hot object appears in the sky.
Between clippings, it is lovely and "enameled" (as they apparently did
in medieval times) with white and gold daisies, purple selfheal and
white clover.
Life's too short to be anal about lawns, in my book :-)

Cat(h)

We have 2 bumble bee nests in our garden and a wall of knee high
thistles, docks and ragworts in our wild bit. It depresses me when
people want gardens to be sterile and freak at the slightest oddity
and want instant chemical solutions. Yer man has selfheal in his lawn
because the lawn is shite not because he has been lax with his
chemicals. If he wants a nice lawn, he has to put some time in.
Spraying it will waste the money and give him a patchy lawn with bare
bits and the weeds will regrow in a while. If he wants a nice lawn he
has to scarify, aerate, feed and mow correctly.

I saw a clip on Nationwide a few weeks ago where some folks in
Cabinteely have made a wildflower meadow in the fantastic Cabinteely
Park. I was pleased to see that until, I saw one of them "weeding".
They explained that they did not want docks and thistles. I wonder
did she ask why greenfinches and chaffinches are now so uncommon in
the cities. They cannot feed on hanging baskets or weed suppressing
membranes.

I am in grumpy old man mood.

Des