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Post by Beau Leggs on May 4, 2007 8:50:34 GMT
Basic question - as I dislike gardening.
How do you get rid of weeds, without digging them up or putting down some chemical, both that leave a circle of earth or dead plant/grass.
The only part of the garden the grass is thriving in between the mono-blocks.
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Post by Shuggie on May 4, 2007 17:19:38 GMT
Readymix concrete??
;D ;D
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Post by Fi on May 4, 2007 19:38:34 GMT
Beau, you can get garden flame throwers for getting rid of weeds - a quick Google will find you plenty of choice. I've never used one, but they are supposed to only affect the small area where the weed has rooted. Alternatively, is the one that Shugs left behind the CR bar still there?
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Post by Murphy Slaw on May 5, 2007 1:34:24 GMT
Remove the big ones using one of them little weed puller thingies then chuck some of that "weed and feed" stuff on. It contains a selective agent which targets broad leaved plants but not grass.
Alternatively there are lawn weedkillers which do the same.
Knowledge now exhausted
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Post by Penny Drops on May 5, 2007 6:43:09 GMT
Hi Beau You could try using a lawn care company. there are many around. My mum pays £13 per visit. (and they come every three months so its not dear). They treat the lawn - it takes 15 mins or so and I have never seen such lush, weed free grass
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Post by Penny Drops on May 5, 2007 6:43:24 GMT
Hi Beau You could try using a lawn care company. there are many around. My mum pays £13 per visit. (and they come every three months so its not dear). They treat the lawn - it takes 15 mins or so and I have never seen such lush, weed free grass
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Post by Shuggie on May 5, 2007 7:39:29 GMT
This is supposed to be a serious noticeboard, Fi, so I'll not rise to the bait.
However ...
... the Acme Multipurpose Nuclear-Powered Twin-Seat Flame Gun with optional DVD player, air bags and coffee maker would seem to be the answer to Beau's problem ...
;D ;D
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Post by Beau Leggs on May 8, 2007 11:37:09 GMT
This is supposed to be a serious noticeboard, Fi, so I'll not rise to the bait. However ... ... the Acme Multipurpose Nuclear-Powered Twin-Seat Flame Gun with optional DVD player, air bags and coffee maker would seem to be the answer to Beau's problem ... ;D ;D I have ordered it. I have just have an e-mail from Messers Bush & Blair, stating that since I am determined to become a nuclear state, they have no choice but to invade. And do I still have a can of petrol in the garage.
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Post by Beau Leggs on May 8, 2007 11:38:31 GMT
Remove the big ones using one of them little weed puller thingies then chuck some of that "weed and feed" stuff on. It contains a selective agent which targets broad leaved plants but not grass.
Alternatively there are lawn weedkillers which do the same.
Knowledge now exhausted Off the the local pub garden centre to get some. Thanks for the advice.
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Post by Beau Leggs on May 8, 2007 11:40:43 GMT
Hi Beau You could try using a lawn care company. there are many around. My mum pays £13 per visit. (and they come every three months so its not dear). They treat the lawn - it takes 15 mins or so and I have never seen such lush, weed free grass Since I have been volinteered to cut the darn thing every 3 weeks, I may as well try and fix the problem myself. Thanks for the idea.
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Post by revmichael on May 8, 2007 11:40:56 GMT
My problem is that if I fed my (what is laughably called lawns) with weed and feed there would only be brown soil left.
Someone once said that difference between a gardener and a plantsman/woman is the size of the lawn. Plantspeople keep making the borders larger (thus reducing the size of the lawn) to accommodate the increasing number of plants.
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Lucy Lastic
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Post by Lucy Lastic on May 9, 2007 15:23:25 GMT
Since I have been volinteered to cut the darn thing every 3 weeks, I may as well try and fix the problem myself. Thanks for the idea. Every three weeks - you must have the slowest growing lawn in Scotland!! Where can I get that kind of grass seed?
If you cut the grass once a week throughout the summer - you won't notice the weeds because they'll be kept cut down. That's the easy/lazy way and saves digging them out or putting chemicals down
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Post by Beau Leggs on May 10, 2007 12:23:04 GMT
Since I have been volinteered to cut the darn thing every 3 weeks, I may as well try and fix the problem myself. Thanks for the idea. Every three weeks - you must have the slowest growing lawn in Scotland!! Where can I get that kind of grass seed?
If you cut the grass once a week throughout the summer - you won't notice the weeds because they'll be kept cut down. That's the easy/lazy way and saves digging them out or putting chemicals downIt would normally try and cut it, at least, every two weeks, but getting a couple of dry days together means that it is done once every three weeks.
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Post by lemanie on May 11, 2007 18:39:02 GMT
when you find the solution can you let me know, my front lawn is 85% weed so i daren't try the weed killer route as they're be nowt left.
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Post by Lucy Lastic on May 11, 2007 19:46:03 GMT
when you find the solution can you let me know, my front lawn is 85% weed so i daren't try the weed killer route as they're be nowt left. Just keep cutting it very short! Seriously, I created a very respectable - perhaps not exactly a lawn but a darn good area of grass from a plot that was just nettles, docks, dandelions etc. The idea is that if you cut down these weeds the grass will eventually come through. It does work, that's why the heather is burnt on the hills, it allows the grass to come through.
Firstly I scythed down all the really long stuff, then just cut it with a mower (you need one of the biggish motor, rotary ones at first) and just keep cutting it shorter, by the second year it will look perfectly OK. So even a wilderness becomes a garden!!
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Post by Daxie on May 17, 2007 18:06:12 GMT
*looks at grass in back garden, where she put the weed and feed on 4 weeks ago*
Mmmmmmm, lots of brown grass, more brown than green...
*wonders if it will all be revived before the bbq in a few weeks time*
probally not
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Post by smiffy on May 19, 2007 11:00:25 GMT
I PMS put weed and feed on our grass, when it was in a brown, dry, sorry state. It was watered in naturally within required amount of days (we had kept an eye on the weather channel), and low and behold, I have now an almost weed free lawn. It is just bare earth in places where the grass has died over the summer months. However, PMS we are modifying the lawn soon, so we can patch it up. Once it gets wet enough to dig that is!
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Post by Fi on May 19, 2007 14:29:44 GMT
Smiffy's reply reminds me of what we did to keep the lawn weed free and well fed in Oz. We kept a couple of guinea pigs in an open bottomed cage and moved it once every two or three weeks. They ate all the weeds and manured the lawn at the same time. I'm not sre if this would work on lawns in the UK though, since the grass in Oz is seriously tough stuff so they preferred to eat the weeds. Worth a go though and you can always barbecue the guineau pigs if it doesn't work.
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Post by lily on May 19, 2007 19:28:24 GMT
Hope Beau you don't mind if I deviate a wee bit...it occured to me today how much tidier the garden looked after PMLL mowed the lawn yesterday. Given the rain and the fact we had been away for a week it looked like a jungle with weeds all over the place, especially under the bird feeder where odd seeds end up!
xxx
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