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Originally Posted by tref_30
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
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Things like nettles aren't reliably killed by a single application of general systemic weedkiller in midsummer anyway, though an application in late summer is more effective. So dig out any major roots, then let things regrow a bit, and then weedkill them in late summer. It might then be wise to wait till spring before doing anything and see what reappears, in case you need to do it again. You don't really want to lay a lawn until you are really sure you are rid of any nasties, because once they are growing in a lawn they get trickier to get rid of without damaging the lawn. Vegetable plot less of an issue, 'cos you can still dig the roots out.