saxavordian
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Sheep or depending how stoked your neighbours are you could call the police saying there's a body in the garden or strange smell.
Call in Time Team ....
A 2m wide roll of weed membrane & a ton of chippings should suffice.
Job jobbed !!!!
Concrete slab ?
ER1C
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Pull them up its the best way by far.... You will reduce them year after year massively. Sprays are ok but never knock them on the head just tend to kill the annual growth. You could buy a burner (flame gun) but with the size you have and cost of paraffin I would just pull them up. My wife has a horse field and we have issues and the best solution has been Pulling them.
jamesmartin
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cut shorter regularly and buy a long handle garden weeder with a inch wide chisel blade to cut the root on the low spreading weeds
payydg
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Ha! I’m sure there’s a buried king here somewhere. I know it looks a mess but things have been somewhat busy lately and not had the time keep on top of things.
Believe it or not it’s mostly grass. Must be some kind of spot on weed killer? I guess I could kill it all off and resow/put down turf. Not sure I’m that bothered.
They do a weed burner regularly in Lidl or Aldi ...
+1 Regular cutting encourages grass but discourages weeds. Think Golf greens and/or Wimbledon
Clover particularly needs cropping almost at ground level
85Santana3
Active Member
personally I think planting a lawn is the sign of decline of any civilization. You have to keep on cutting it, knowing well in advance that it will grow up again, you keep on cutting the damned thing and it grows back again. Not only that, instead of trying to figure out how to make it stop growing, you would give it more help to grow thicker and faster, so you would need to cut it more often! This must be what ended the Romans and dinasours.
However if you insist on having a lawn the best way to solve your problem with least effort is keeping half a dozzen chickens
However if you insist on having a lawn the best way to solve your problem with least effort is keeping half a dozzen chickens
steve2286w
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Keep the weeds ( clover ) and do your bit for the pollinators, in China they employ people to hand pollinate trees as all the bees have gone
As three others have said, keep on cutting it and make sure you remove the cuttings. Weeds grow from above ground, grass grows from below,(so to speak, bad way of putting it but some on here will know what I mean!) so the more you cut it the more the weeds die.
This from my s-i-l who is deputy head greenkeeper on a F-off big golf course int midlands so has massive practical knowledge as well as all the horti and arbori qualifications.
Mind you I wouldn't mind a clover lawn.
This from my s-i-l who is deputy head greenkeeper on a F-off big golf course int midlands so has massive practical knowledge as well as all the horti and arbori qualifications.
Mind you I wouldn't mind a clover lawn.
jamesmartin
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we cut our lawns short and still have the bees and the clover,clover also helps with nitrogen
