"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:

2 things come to mind.
1) Perhaps you just need to look for the weeding fork. I have a very
large
lawn (we call it the cricket pitch so if you're a USian, think
Baseball
field) and we got an infestation of Capeweed right through the lawn
(it's a
flat weed and far worse than dandelion because it flowers on plants
even as
small as a quarter of an inch and once it flowers, the seeds spread).
We
hand weeded it. It took us 3 years but now there are no cape weeds.
We
each had a weeding fork and we'd take the transistor out and sit with
our
backs to the sun and go for it. It was really a rather pleasant
activity.
We only did this because we didn't want it getting into our pastures
and
destroying them. We had nor specific idealogical objection to having
'weeds' in our lawn
2) why should a lawn just be boring old grass? I prefer a lawn with
livingstone daisys in it to a pure green swath of fine grass. The
former I
find appealing and the latter sterile and anal.

I love the description of your lawn, Farm1. I've tried for years to
get daisys to grow here and so far, no luck. (But the golden rod is in
bloom right now.)

Kate