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Badly weeded area
There's a small area at the side of my house that is badly weeded. It was
never properly grassed and is now a mixture of grass and weeds. What's the best way to fix this? Should I simply dig-up the whole lot and plant more grass? I'm a newbie to gardening and I'm not sure how to do this. Cheers. Bobby |
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Badly weeded area
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writes There's a small area at the side of my house that is badly weeded. It was never properly grassed and is now a mixture of grass and weeds. What's the best way to fix this? Should I simply dig-up the whole lot and plant more grass? I'm a newbie to gardening and I'm not sure how to do this. Cheers. If you mow it regularly, most of the weeds will subside. The remainder, such as clover, daisies, buttercups etc. will like lawn conditions and will re-appear unless you re-soil and re-seed the area. -- Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs. |
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"Alan Gould" wrote in message ... In article , Bobby writes There's a small area at the side of my house that is badly weeded. It was never properly grassed and is now a mixture of grass and weeds. What's the best way to fix this? Should I simply dig-up the whole lot and plant more grass? I'm a newbie to gardening and I'm not sure how to do this. Cheers. If you mow it regularly, most of the weeds will subside. The remainder, such as clover, daisies, buttercups etc. will like lawn conditions and will re-appear unless you re-soil and re-seed the area. Or you can water it with Verdone, which is a weed killer for use on grassed areas. Alan -- Reply to alan(at)windsor-berks(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk |
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 19:16:15 +0100, Alan Gould
wrote: In article , Bobby writes There's a small area at the side of my house that is badly weeded. It was never properly grassed and is now a mixture of grass and weeds. What's the best way to fix this? Should I simply dig-up the whole lot and plant more grass? I'm a newbie to gardening and I'm not sure how to do this. Cheers. If you mow it regularly, most of the weeds will subside. Bobby, It sounds as though it may be quite 'lumpy' to boot. Roll it too. Don't worry about getting too close a crop. It's not a good idea anyway, the grass doesn't like it. Alan's prognostication below will still be valid The remainder, such as clover, daisies, buttercups etc. will like lawn conditions and will re-appear unless you re-soil and re-seed the area. Oh you don't want to do that do you? You'll have a wonderfully colourful and interesting grazed meadow to which you could add some niceties. I expect it will be a dry meadow but if there is a damp patch, say at the drip ring of a large shrub or tree you could plant some niceties like a clump of the tall Buttercup (Ranunculus) acris. Mow around it like you do the daffs in Springtime. I would have a go at giving plantains a struggle for survival though. One of those narrow hand trowels. Fill earth into the hole it leaves and sprinkle some seed in. You'll probably have enough grass so you could plant something else low and creepy but more exotic. If it survives, it survives, it would probably find it hard to build up a colony though because most of the space around it is already taken up by vigourous pre-senescent (sp?) other plants whose seed will be having an equally hard time to find a niche to germinate satisfactorily. Your lawn needn't even have an edge but disappear into shrubbery where the buttercups and t'ings go all sulky and the little woodland plants have a field day. etc.etc What was the point of all that in relation to your original question? Oh yes. Put your feet up and let nature do the work .. well most of it anyway .. and the work you do, enjoy as you would a conversation. Huss (end of Easter homily) peals of laughter - (Don't have the same aversion to 'expression tags') Grow a little garden spam block - for real addy, reverse letters of second level domain. |
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It's so badly weeded that I'm tempted to kill the whole area and then dig it
up and start again (it's a small area at the side of my house). Does that make sense? If so, what's the best weedkiller to use on an area than you plan to grow grass? "Alan Holmes" wrote in message ... "Alan Gould" wrote in message ... In article , Bobby writes There's a small area at the side of my house that is badly weeded. It was never properly grassed and is now a mixture of grass and weeds. What's the best way to fix this? Should I simply dig-up the whole lot and plant more grass? I'm a newbie to gardening and I'm not sure how to do this. Cheers. If you mow it regularly, most of the weeds will subside. The remainder, such as clover, daisies, buttercups etc. will like lawn conditions and will re-appear unless you re-soil and re-seed the area. Or you can water it with Verdone, which is a weed killer for use on grassed areas. Alan -- Reply to alan(at)windsor-berks(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk |
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In article , Bobby
writes It's so badly weeded that I'm tempted to kill the whole area and then dig it up and start again (it's a small area at the side of my house). Does that make sense? If so, what's the best weedkiller to use on an area than you plan to grow grass? I agree with Alan Holmes. Digging up the whole area and levelling it to lay a new lawn is a huge job. Kill the weeds using verdone, feed the grass and then spike it and give it a top dressing every autumn. It's what we did and our lawn, while not a bowling green, is very presentable. -- Jane Ransom in Lancaster. I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg but if you need to email me for any other reason, put jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see deadspam.com |
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