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a lawn of weeds....help!
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we have been in our house for 3 years and have never been brave enough to tackle the garden. its gotten progressively worse and is nice basically all weeds, which i embarrasingly cut every copule of weeks. We are getting married later this year and dont have the money or time to do much in the garden now until next year. I dont want to keep mowing the weeds just so it looks a quarter decent (when compared to the neighbours) and would like some advice on what to do. I am thinking about (bear with me here, i'm a complete novice!) buying some sort of weed killer to apply after i next mow them and however many applications it takes to just kill them all, and i presume the grass with it. Is this a sensible thing to do or will it damage the soil so it will mean more work/money next year when we come to sort the garden out? next year we are thinking of just getting someone in to replace the turf, and do whatever it is that needs doing to make it look like a proper garden! what i dont want to do is to take some action now that will mean problems next year - i dont know the best time to replace and grow a new lawn... any advice would be greatly appreciated - does my weed killer idea seem ok? and if so what sort of thing should i look for (anything on the bottle/pack that i should look for)? thanking you! lee |
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we have been in our house for 3 years and have never been brave enough to tackle the garden. its gotten progressively worse and is nice basically all weeds, which i embarrasingly cut every copule of weeks. We are getting married later this year and dont have the money or time to do much in the garden now until next year. In message .com, La Puce writes If you apply weed killer now, it will look awful for the rest of the year if you don't do anything else. Yes, it will look really terrible and depressing. If you just keep mowing, on the other hand, it will gradually weaken the weeds. If you could manage to cut it every week, especially now for the next six weeks or so, then it could look really quite respectable until you get around to getting it done. -- Klara, Gatwick basin |
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wrote: wrote: we have been in our house for 3 years and have never been brave enough to tackle the garden. its gotten progressively worse and is nice basically all weeds, which i embarrasingly cut every copule of weeks. You would be surprised how quickly this can be reversed by the application of a selective broad leaf weedkiller or proprietory lawn weed and feed mixture. All you have to do then is cut the grass every couple of weeks and the vast majority of the weeds will die off. And the feed component makes the grass grow strongly again. Then go over it a month or so later using the same lawn weedkiller as a spot weeder on the tough established weeds. I find uprooting large dandelions and buttercups very therapuetic YMMV. I don't bother treating a few daisies or other nice wild flowers in my lawns. [...other sensible stuff snipped...] Lawn weedkiller (or better a spring weed and feed mixture). Need not be expensive or time consuming to apply. You still have to cut the lawn regularly though to get maximum benefit from the treatment. I really would not even consider turf in your position. Keep on cutting, at _least_ once a week, and it'll turn into a lawn fast enough. Once the weeds are more or less under control, you can vigorously rake it over and sow some cheap lawn seed if the process wants helping along: in spite of the books, you can do this at almost any time of year with reasonable results. It's dead easy. Why not turf? Well, it's expensive for a start, even if you do it yourself. Then doing it right is a lot of work: much more than starting from seed. Then it's almost always unnecessary anyway. People make money by encouraging the public to think that turfing a poor lawn is the normal way to go: but it isn't normal, it's exceptional. Television makeover programmes are also to blame: if you want the Boss to come home after a weekend with Mother and burst into grateful tears at a miraculous transformation while Charlie glugs champagne, turf is the only answer. But real gardens don't work like that. -- Mike. |
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a lawn of weeds....help!
wrote in message oups.com... Hi we have been in our house for 3 years and have never been brave enough to tackle the garden. its gotten progressively worse and is nice basically all weeds, which i embarrasingly cut every copule of weeks. We are getting married later this year and dont have the money or time to do much in the garden now until next year. I dont want to keep mowing the weeds just so it looks a quarter decent (when compared to the neighbours) and would like some advice on what to do. I am thinking about (bear with me here, i'm a complete novice!) buying some sort of weed killer to apply after i next mow them and however many applications it takes to just kill them all, and i presume the grass with it. Is this a sensible thing to do or will it damage the soil so it will mean more work/money next year when we come to sort the garden out? Verdone is an excellent lawn weedkiller, it works better on broad leaf weeds but is effective on most. And it has absolutely no effect on grass. Alan next year we are thinking of just getting someone in to replace the turf, and do whatever it is that needs doing to make it look like a proper garden! what i dont want to do is to take some action now that will mean problems next year - i dont know the best time to replace and grow a new lawn... any advice would be greatly appreciated - does my weed killer idea seem ok? and if so what sort of thing should i look for (anything on the bottle/pack that i should look for)? thanking you! lee |
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a lawn of weeds....help!
thanks to everyone for replying, it's much appreciated. I think from
the majority of posts it would seem that just mowing regularly is the best thing to do for now. i've saved this thread to refer back to for the names of products that i'm bound to forget. thanks again! |
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