On Jul 6, 3:18*am, tref_30 wrote:
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

***Not so fast, pal, on ruling out the killer option. The stuff will
probably come up again if there are roots left in the soil.
One approach might be (subject to correction from experts) to water,
thereby encouraging growth. Then, when there's enuff growth, consider
applying Roundup or some other evil agent g.

BTW, how large is "large". Metric or English understood. Sounds
like it might be large for the plastic option: Cover area with opaque
plastic so the sun's heat will bake the hell out of whatever is down
there. Of course that's a Southern California option,
since we have lots of sun (and little water).

Then again, if the area is REALLY large, and you can handle the
expense, have a crew deal with the problem once for all.

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

HB