Ich habe gerade ein Haus renoviert und schaue mir jetzt den Garten an. Wie Sie sehen, ist es mit Unkraut bedeckt. Wo und wann fange ich an? Früher hatte ich auf meinem alten Grundstück einen schönen Rasen!
Muss ich alles ausgraben? Könnte ich damit durchkommen, kurze/obere Erde abzuschneiden und neu zu säen?
Prost
Von: AstroZombie_88
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More like lovely wildflowers. Will be good for pollinators
Don’t you dare just throw topsoil over that mess. Those weeds are established competitors and they will punch right through a few inches of new dirt before your grass seed even wakes up. If you want a clean slate without fighting this battle for the next five years rent a sod cutter for the afternoon. Strip the top two inches off to get back to bare mineral soil because it is the only way to guarantee you aren’t just burying problems that will resurface in a month.
Once you have it stripped don’t just default to wall-to-wall turf unless you really need it for a dog or kids since lawns are high maintenance water hogs. Before you buy pallets of sod or seed snap a picture of the bare dirt and run it through GardenDream. It helps you visualize where to put planting beds or pathways so you aren’t mowing weird corners later. If you do stick with grass make sure you amend that soil with organic matter first or you’ll just be fighting compaction all over again.
It’s dig up or use chemicals. Obviously nature would prefer you to put in the hard graft in order to save the planet.
If it was my garden I would dig up the majority and feed the lawn really well and then over the next few years keep on top of it.
I did try a lawn feed/weed killer once. It worked for that year but now I have weeds again, so I wasted money, time and did damage.
I know everyone has an opinion so here’s mine! Feed it and mow it. If it’s green and neat it’s a lawn.
Wait till spring, it will just be a mud bath if you do anything other than turf now. Or learn to enjoy the various flowers your lawn will host and how it will improve by not being cut every few days, which in a dry summer results in it staying green and cool to sit on
Amazed at most of the answers and the complete lack of knowledge about how grass actually grows.
As if we live in a country that almost every open space is not actual grassland of some kind or another.
Regular mowing will help the grass to crowd out most of what you are determined is “weeds”.
Look at the council parks and the farmers fields all around you ? Are they digging up their parks completely every 6 months?
No all they do is mow it regularly or put animals onto it that mow it.
They almost never cut as short as most lawnmowers will go, leaving it a bit longer is also a key part of getting the grass to flourish.
It realy is such a simple solution yet everyone seems to be trying to convince you to dig or spray (the black plastic guys havent put in an appearance yet but no doubt they will soon).
Watch how nature does it and you will find your answer, it is usually simple and low effort as an added bonus.
I’d dig out as many of those buttercup plants now while the ground is soft, looks like you might have clay soil get some top soil to fill in some of the divots and reseed with grass seeds in early spring, that would probably be the most cost efficient thing to do or just dig it all over and lay new turf with a layer of new topsoil underneath
It’s some type of field geranium, there are dozens of variants so can’t be more specific. They are annuals. Therefore regular mowing the grass, before they flower and seed will remove it in time. There will be some seeds leftover from this and previous years.
Ours has gone a similar route where bitter cress has spread and killed off swathes of grass – I’m leaving it till spring, then purging it of whatever I can see, top dressing and reseeding with a supposedly more resilient grass. Need it to take some punishment if we get a puppy later in year. But now is not a great time of year for lawns
Kill it with strong weed killer then in spring a company will come root ate the area and lay new sods of grass which you will need to water frequently for starters. If the area is shady you need wide blade grass that survives well or otherwise the Greensword thin type looks best but costs more. Grass is high maintenance thing hard about the overall design and paths/borders and seating areas first
It looks decent as it is, imo. Is that a type of clover?
Look at it though. Its green and pretty. Do you actually need or want a grass lawn? Ones with clover, buttercup, daisy, geranium etc in will flourish in drought, help drainage and provide food and shelter for wildlife.
I can’t really see it, but if it’s geranium (like Herb Robert) as some said, then it’ll have thick horizontal roots/stems/whatevers just over and under the soil. I waited until our clay soil was soft (aka muddy) and I could pull them up without breaking them apart. If you break those stems it’ll grow back from it, so remove any you find. I also realised they hate being frozen and trampled, so I was the mad neighbour dancing on weeds after every icy morning… Just don’t forget to remove the remains after it thawed.
Half of our neglected garden was covered with it so it took a while, but after I finished I sown grass and in a year we had proper usable lawn, instead of knee high geraniums.
Wait till it’s dry in spring and then mow it. Strim it first if it’s too long come spring. Keep mowing until it looks as uniform as you want. Some people like small wildflowers in their lawn, some don’t. The grass will outcompete the flowers if you keep cutting them back with the mower.
The advice you’re getting to dig everything up and start again is fairly mental. Don’t do that unless you’re trying to get it looking like a plastic or stately lawn by some arbitrary deadline, and you want to spend money on a new lawn for some reason. Just mow it when it’s dry enough to not cause a mud bath. It won’t grow in winter anyway.
Weeds are just plants you don’t want. So why don’t you want them? They’re green and healthy and they make your lawn a lot more biodiverse than just having a grass desert.
If youre looking for a nice lawn, wait til spring. Soil temp wants to be over 10 degrees for seed germination Scarify, overseed and top dress. Its not as scary as it sounds
Looks like clover to me… Which I am trying to encourage to take the place of the grass because grass is harder to maintain.
Reject grass. Embrace clover.
I’d leave it until spring, then cut, scarify and aerate.