Hi guys,

I have recently moved into a house with quite a large garden containing what can only be described as large weeds and nettles. As well as this there was also a strange sort of grass that was almost hay like which came out of the ground with relative ease. There was also clumps of grass that when pulled came out with lots of roots and soil.
As you can probably tell from my descriptions above I'm not a gardener, and so the next step I took may have been the wrong one. I pulled as any of the weeds out by hand or digging if they were stiff. Most of them came out roots and all but some snapped, I also mowed the rest.
Having read a few threads on here it seems the best thing to have done wou7ld have been to spray some sort of killer whilst they were long. Obviously this option is no longer so I was wondering if there was anything else I could do. I was thinking of digging it all up and pulling out as many weed as poss.
My long term plan is to have one half of the garden turfed and the other half as an allotment.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Many Thanks

tref_30