I was helping at a friend's patio project over summer & realised he has some lawn care company on contract as they turned up for 10 minutes one day. The lawn? Green but choc full of moss, plantains, creeping buttercup etc etc.
Not a good advert IMHO.
Price of green thumb p.a.? Is your lawn weed free as a result?
I have a lawn that was laid 10 years ago with Rolawn Medallion turf at a rental house. The tenant has been there all that time.
In that time, it has now become a dandelion bed, i.e there is now very little grass visible and is now basically full of dandelions.
I see I have several options:
Dig it all up and lay new turf.... how long do the dandelion tap roots go down and how do I ensure I get the entire tap roots out?
Apply a total weedkiller, wait several months and then reseed with grass seed
Apply a selective weedkiller to kill just the dandelions and hope the grass then regrows and fills in the space left by the dandelions
Pay GreenThumb or similar X quid a month and get them to visit several times a year and sort it out for me.
What do the panel think?
S.
Above is what I would do.
Just mow it regularly.
yes, if you have a second strip of grass around home mow there, after the first, that way you will have dandeleons uniformly all over your lawn areas !!!
I am going through a similar exercise here.
Weed and feed is working on MOST weeds and the moss.
I've only had to glyphosate the yarrow.
You need to do it when the grass grows - next pring - and then water it immediately.
You wouldnt need to wait months to reseed after a glyphosate attack. It doesnt touch seeds
Joke apart, my personal experience is these damndeleons spread easily when you use the mower. Best, as I found,, is to remove them complete root stock and barrel using garden tool. And it needs patience careful not to seveer the root and do it more than 1 season b4 one can see them disappear.
The problem is those weedkillers on sale to the general public are often jus as effective as a chocolate tea pot.
The potential with dandelions is that the problem doesn't originate in your garden. You may clear the problem in your lawn and re-seed but next season thousands of new seeds will float in from your neighbours.
I looked at the price of selective weed killers and realised that paying a lawn care company to do it made more sense. No regrets.
Tim
Option 3 - selective weedkiller, Verdone (now called Weedol lawn killer) or similar. But not at this time of year. Wait until the Spring when things start growing again. You may need two applications, a few weeks apart. When the dandelions have died, scarify the larger bald patches with a rake and over-seed with a good lawn seed mix. Be vigilant and remove dandelion seedlings that will inevitably appear over time.
Take an alternative approach:
Senior Management was able to 'recover' a lawn in a sorry state to a pretty good condition by using one of the off the shelf 'weed and feeds' in combination with some 'spot' weed killer for the stubborn ones. It took quite a long time, over a year, probably 2 or even 3. It seemed a crime when we later torn it up and paved the whole area.
We faced with a similar problem in the current house we opted for new turf. The results were certainly quicker but a lot more expensive.
Find a local gardener who will not charge the earth but you may still need to relay it or at least try to get it mowed often so the dandelions don't seed. Often though this problem occurs due to an adjacent plot running wild and seeding yours! I'm assuming you want real grass. There are those who say also that why worry if its green most oof the time, seed it with wild flowers. Brian
You can seed the bare bits, but the issue of the deep roots is going to end up with a very bumpy lawn, just like mine.... Brian
Ay? Are you saying that mowing will spread the seeds? *Regular* mowing would include before the seeds have formed, not to mention when the (few hopefully) newly sown dandelions are just starting to grow and will be fairly fragile.
Looking at the name, here is a contributor who should be taken seriously :-)
My local council once explained they were no longer permitted to use certain weedkillers on the streets but I was able to buy them.
I suspect public restrictions have caught up to make us just as restricted.
Every time I try selective weedkiller on a lawn, the grass is badly affected and doesn't really recover. I would use a good brand and not apply too much. I've given up with them.
... who got them from you in the first place ...
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