Der Teil meines Gartens vorbei an der Magnolie ist mit Unkraut und Moos durchsetzt. Ich versuche nur, die beste Annäherung an die Unkrautentfernung herauszufinden, die kein gesundes Gras schädigt und im gleichen Atemzug meinen gesunden Rücken nicht beschädigt 😂
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The question is probably whether you want to routinely spray chemicals on your garden for years to come.
Once you kill the moss and weeds there won’t be much left. I’d use weed and feed and forget about it for a year or two
Weedol lawn is what you want. Use once a year. You may also need iron sulphate to burn the moss. Then scalp, scarify, overseed and top dress in spring.
Dandelions are easy to remove – just go round with a knife and dig down to cut them off at the root. They can grow back but if you stop them flowering then over time you’ll win. I do the same with other non grass plants. Weed killer is a bit nasty.
You’ll have a much greener and tougher lawn if you just leave the weeds be and embrace them as your contribution to biodiversity.
I would just leave it, it looks ok and weed killers are very unhealthy things to be dealing with. With the environmental challenges we are facing maintaining a chemically controlled grass monoculture is pretty difficult to justify.
Leave the weeds there and just mow over them just like grass – it’ll be a green and tough lawn that way!
Don’t use weedkiller.
I’ve decided this year that I’m not bothering anymore about the lawn. Weeds can stay, except perhaps I’ll dig out some dandelions if there are lots. The mossy patches can stay, and the shady corners I’m going to plant some mosses and see if they take. I’m going for green, not necessarily grass.
If a neat grass lawn is important to you, I’d go for digging the dandelions, scarifying well, maybe some iron for the moss, and reseeding.
I find them fascinating. They’re an indicator…
“Dandelions generally indicate that soil is compacted and may be low in calcium. Just like docks both indicate and help to address soil compaction, dandelions both indicate and help to address low soil calcium. Dandelions have long taproots that reach much into much deeper layers of soil than the roots of grasses. These tap roots then carry calcium and other nutrients back up to the nutrient depleted surface levels of the soil, improving soil health and doing the farmer a favour!’
https://www.farmingfornature.ie/indictor-species/#:~:text=Dandelions,doing%20the%20farmer%20a%20favour!
“Moss in a lawncan increase biodiversity by providing food and shelter for many small creatures. It can also improve air quality and help sequester carbon.” pull up the dandelions if you find them unslightly but leave everything else.
Neither, but if you *must*, then the latter.
No
Don’t use weed killer and in all honesty I’d leave the dandelions. They appear when your soil is lacking nitrogen. Let them grow, replenish your soil and then harvest them for medical purposes 😉
There is a reason why there is a company dedicated to killing these 🤔 and it’s not for our benefit.
Yes to both. If you are obsessed with having a bowling green or golf green lawn. However practically you are fighting a losing battle with your overall environment, as your lawn will just keep wanting to revert to whatever works around you. Dandelions and all. So get a dibber for the dandelions. A bit of lawn sand for the moss (which does prevent good grass growth). Get rid of the thatch. Buy ‘lawn care’ by Dr DG Hessayon.
Waste of time imo. Weeds are just plants we’ve decided are weeds (perjorative). The insects will love you for keeping dandelions and daisies etc. Your lawn will look interesting and varied. And it’ll save you a bunch of work. If they get out of hand just pull them up. But ask yourself: is it really necessary?
Just spend some time and manually remove the weeds, do this regularly as part of a maintenance plan to keep them under control
Weed killer is poison so your putting poison in your environment when you use it, so if your using that space or your pets or kids there may be consequences , keep them under control continuously , weed them out
Embrace the diverse lawn. A sea of yellow dandelions is a beautiful site. Get a sign saying, “excuse the weeds, we’re feeding the bees”. Mow a walking path through the knee high grass and abundance of nature’s flowers.
Go and look at /r/fucklawns.
Or, replace it all with fake grass and be done with it. The gnome is judging you.
I’d just mow it to keep the weeds down. If there’s moss it means it’s probably shady and wet, and getting grass to take over will be a lot of effort. I like my mossy bits as I don’t need to mow as often.
The only weeds I dig out are the big prickly ones because weike to walk in the garden barefoot in the summer.
And here’s me actively adding moss to my lawn
https://www.progreen.co.uk/weed-control/selective/lawns-amenity/dicophar-selective-lawn-weed-killer/ Get some of this and enjoy your lawn weed free if you want to.
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I usually just remove the massive ones that look out of place by hand, leave the rest
Please don’t use weed killer. Dandelions are actually wonderful pollinators they provide so much for wildlife! (Unlike weed killers)
Looks like a big area so weed killer will likely be expensive (putting aside eco impact). Regular mowing should do the trick along with random dandelion removal for the particularly big ones
I use evergreen 4 in 1, once a year.
Then follow up by overseeding and manually removing.
Pass me the popcorn
I use this for Moss (see link) it’s made a big difference. I don’t mind the occasional buttercup or daisy and always leave any clover for the bees. You can’t get dandelions out without making a big hole so I tend to leave them too. I used to take them out in the early years but they just seed back in so waste of time. Only thing I take out immediately are Dockens. Unless you want a bowling green, it adds some interest.
Not sure what the big brown patches are? t’s a strange pattern if it’s moss. Do you have a dog?
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Never, ever use weed killer
No weed killer and no need to remove all weeds. The plantago and the buttercups etc can stay. I just go around with a trowel or the corner of a hoe and try and lift the dandelions a couple of days after I notice them flowering. You can get most, if not all, of the root out (and cook with it or brew a tea if you want). You can manually pull out whatever you want to not keep and leave the rest and mow as usual.
I just go for the dandelions because they dominate and out compete the other stuff like the clover but it could be a good idea to restrain nettles to the edges (or remove them) and not to let thistle get too big.
We don’t go for weed killer because it kills the soil, insects including bees, pollutes the water table and it gets into pets and people including children via the food-chain and even by simple transdermal contact. It’ll also have a downstream impact on your neighbours and that isn’t very neighbourly. It also makes future weeds more likely which means you’ve just setup a subscription to weed killer. Hand removal will eventually eliminate without causing future or unforeseen immediate costs.
Get a weed puller instead of weed killer. Really satisfying to pull up tap rooted weeds, and you can be more selective in your choice of what to keep or remove. I keep daisies, pull up thistle and ragwort. Moss disappeared last year after I let the grass grown for no mow May (which I extended into June). However back with a vengeance this wet winter!
Neither. Enjoy your plant diversity.
What weeds? I don’t see any. I just see a garden.
It depends how nice you want your lawn to look! I have an area that I keep weed free and nicely striped in the summer. The rest is just cut as normal and what grows grows. For the nice bit, I dig out and tough weeds and weed and feed the rest. There’s no need to do all that if you don’t want to though, just regular mowing will keep it looking good. Of course everyone here thinks lawns should be mini jungles and never touched, but what you want to do with your lawn is entirely your choice.
Mow high to help the grass out-compete the low-lying weeds.