"DDEckerslyke" wrote in
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"hayley" wrote in message
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I got one of those ready made lawn weedkillers and sprayed mine. It
took
2/3
apps but eventually worked. (I did this because I did not have the
time to dig them all out and wanted to keep most of the "weeds" as I
really like daisies and many other wild flowers, just wanted to get
rid of the dandelions.)
Hayley

A thousand thanks. That sounds like exactly what we are after. Do you
have a brand/chemical name, or if I go into, say, Homebase and buy
some lawn weedkiller are they all pretty much the same?

I *think* Hayley means she got a spray that allowed her to treat individual
plants with one squirt, rather than a weedkiller that only does dandelions
that she sprayed generally on the whole lawn. So far as I know, there are
no weedkillers that will leave some wildflowers intact while killing off
others.

I have just been reading Oliver Rackham's Illustrated History of the
Countryside, and was interested to read this about the long-term impact of
weedkillers: "The Cambridge city commons still bear the marks of a
weedkilling twenty-five years ago (from which the weeds quickly
recovered)".

Not important if you have a new lawn and house, but perhaps to be
considered if your lawn takes in grass that has been around long enough to
develop a wide range of different plants, only some of which you dislike
;-)

Victoria