Fox and Cubs. We used to mow round the occasional one that turned up in our lawn. I would cherish them.

Stay well,

Rod

You need to get rid of that mole, too! They can play havoc if you have a nice lawned area!

I have found cutting the lawn too short encourages weeds. Scarifying the lawn for a moss infestation is a good start. The lawn will also benefit from forking every 100 mm, 4" to get some air into the soil and improve drainage. Lawn sand brushed onto a lawn after forking will help with the drainage. Moss loves a water logged lawn.

I have found a Weed and Feed by Vitax, (usual disclaimer), to be very effective at controlling what weeds I get and improving the colour. I do think though that you will need to do some reseeding before you can apply this.

Vitax cannot be applied on a new lawn, and that goes for many of the other preparations. I have used in the past a product by Westfield this is a weed and feed, but it has grass seed included. This product is very environmentally, pet and children friendly.

Regards

Gray,

MCPA controls broad leaved weeds like those shown.

A lot of the chemical treatments have to be put on at a particular time of year, might not be now. Some weeds are encouraged by mowing short (daisies) some by leaving long (docks). Some adapt to either (buttercup). I think the one you are showing (I don't have that one) would suffer if you left the lawn to grow 1ft high or more in the spring.

My brown lawn after the drought now after the rain is showing spots of green – they are the weeds foolishly giving themselves away so I'm planning to go round with a paintbrush and glyphosate to get them individually. Yes incredibly tedious but short burst of that spread over a few days gives me great satisfaction on a sunny day and lets me put off having to do the hundred other jobs.

A few comments.

Plants compete so healthy vigorous grass holds it's own better against weeds. Feed it.

Most plants with grass as an exception don't like to be cut back on a regular basis, so mow often.

Don't scalp your lawn, it helps with dry weather.

Don't rake moss, it justs speads it around.

Use weed and feed regularly.

Once you have got things under control, don't stop what you are doing.

Deal with ants nests.

Reseed regularly.

regards Martin

As a devoted non-gardener, I can't understand this passion for areas of unremitting green. Happily, our tiny 'garden' is incapable of supporting 'normal' plants but works well with a wide variety of 'weeds'. The varying colours and textures are vastly more visually appealing than manicured green, it's easy to 'maintain' and, most importantly, it encourages a wide variety of insects, especially the bees.

Grass ? … who needs it?

rgds

Bill

I am with Bill on this one.

If it is green it is grass. I like small flowers in a lawn even if they are weeds. The last you do is to put down plastic or flag stones.

I like the idea of a meadow type lawn with long wild grass and flowers but I guess it would not be maintenance free unlike my present grass. I pay someone to mow it.

JA

If I killed all the weeds and moss in our “lawn” then we would mostly have bare earth!

Never seen any rules or wrenches growing can you send some seeds?

Edited By V8Eng on 21/06/2020 14:57:55

A blowtorch ?

Try and leave at least three full days between Weedolling and mowing or vice versa, and Weedol when the grass is not bone dry, but at least 12 hours before it's likely to rain again. It's never straightforward…

And I don't think Weedol is quite as good as it was when it was Verdone, but it definitely works as there is a clear straight line between weeds / no weeds on a patch of shared lawn where the neighbour doesn't bother.

And +1 for generally leaving the grass a bit longer, at least two inches. And homemade weedkiller can be made with vinegar, magnesium sulphate (although I have heard table salt also works) and a squirt of detergent. Seems to work best on dandelions and fleshy-leaved ones, although if you persist you can kill more or less anything.

Regards,

Rob