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"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.)

Thank you for the kind words Kate. I've never understood the 'only one
species' 'lawn' mentality. For me, a 'lawn' is just a swathe of grass like
growth that keeps down dust and stops your footwear getting clogged with mud
in wet weather and thus stops both mud and dust ending up in the house.
(But then I live in the country and I don't have nice neat paths and wear
nice neat shoes or have nice clean dogs or a nice neat and clean husband.
I'm just as likely to need to bring some ailing animal into the house or to
have to come in dripping with animal goo depending on the animal emergency
du jour).