Hallo! Ich bin neu hier und suche nach Ratschlägen zur Rasenverbesserung. Kann mir jemand erklären, warum mein Garten ein Paradies für Löwenzahn und Unkraut zu sein scheint?
Ich gebe als Erster zu, dass ich keinen grünen Daumen habe. Ich habe einen Unkrautstecher bestellt, um so viele Löwenzahn wie möglich zu entfernen. Es scheint, dass sie jedes Jahr mit aller Macht zurückkommen. Was fehlt dem Rasen?
Der Garten ist von Nadelbäumen umgeben. Ich weiß nicht, ob das von Bedeutung ist?
Ich habe es jetzt mit dem Mäher vollständig ausgeweidet, es ist also kurz, aber sie werden schnell zurückkommen.
Von: Turbofox_89
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Dandelions just spread very rapidly but i think they are beautiful flowers. They feed alot of insects, especially earlier in the year for insects emerging hibernation, and if you behead them before the puffball seeds emerge they cant spread. They are easy to dig out though, if you scoop down low enough into the soil. If you want to suppress them completely you could plant moss, clover or some other ground creeping plant and turn it into a no mow lawn
Because you let the grass grow and thus the weeds grow? People with immaculate lawns don’t get them by accident they get them by constantly being out there pulling up weeds, keeping the grass and by extension weeds shaved down so only the grass can grow.
A perfect lawn is actually bad for wildlife. I quite like a lawn with dandelions and daisies in it.
How lovely, you know you can eat dandelion…..very nutritious.
Looks beautiful! Bowling green lawns are so yesterday – embrace [no mow May](https://www.plantlife.org.uk/campaigns/nomowmay/)
Dandelions are prized exotic flowers in some Asian countries.
Pick and package the leaves and see if Waitrose will agree to a deal as part of their “foraged” range
Easiest way to suppress dandelions is just to mow more often.
Grasses handle frequent mowing much better than weeds, but the key is don’t cut it too short. Keep the blade fairly high (around 5–7cm) and mow regularly — that way the grass stays thicker and shades out new weeds.
Fertiliser definitely helps. You can get organic lawn feed fairly cheap (often chicken manure–based), or chemical ones even cheaper. Once you start feeding though, the lawn grows fast, so you’ll be mowing a lot more — but that does favour the grass over weeds.
If you want a perfect lawn, selective weed killers are an option — you’ll find plenty of choice from Monsanto in B&Q. My dad uses them and his lawn is the envy of the neighbours, but personally I’m not keen with kids playing on it.
This year I’ve gone a bit different and skipped fertiliser altogether. Even organic stuff like chicken manure isn’t something I really want spread around the garden.
Instead, I’ve overseeded some bare patches with white clover (which naturally fixes nitrogen and suits a slightly wilder lawn), and I’m growing daisies from seed to plant in later in the season.
Regular mowing will help a lot but be pailtient, it takes time.
Mow all year round when the grass gets too tall (aim for mild days in the cooler months). If you set your mower at 50mm then don’t let it get above 75mm, something like that, grass responds best to a regular trim. This will help massively with the weeds but dandelions will still grow as they can keep low down. That said, they are probably the least problematic lawn weeds so it’s easiest to just leave them be unless you really want a perfect lawn.
If you keep up the mowing then the next step would be to scarify the lawn in the Autumn, dress with compost & topsoil and overseed.
The lawn is missing actual plants 🤣😜
That’s a nice patch of native wild flowers you have there
You live in the UK.
You have dandelions in your lawn.
Business as usual
My allotment plot is looking like this pic, apart from my raised beds it’s covered in Dandelions – my neighbour constantly trims her grassed areas so much so it looks like a bowling green.
I’ve told her I’m letting grass grow with dandelions in uncultivated areas to support bug life and nearby bee hives, she tutted and went back to trimming 🤔