Weed Filled Garden

fionny

Heya,

We bought a house recently the gardens were a bit neglected... especially the back... id say 70% of the green on the lawn is dandellions and other weeds.

Whats the best tact for getting it back to grass?

We are probably going to rent a rotovator and turn the soil anyway but will the weeds just come back up before new grass seed can take hold?

Thanks,

fionny

fionny wrote: »

Heya,

We bought a house recently the gardens were a bit neglected... especially the back... id say 70% of the green on the lawn is dandellions and other weeds.

Whats the best tact for getting it back to grass?

We are probably going to rent a rotovator and turn the soil anyway but will the weeds just come back up before new grass seed can take hold?

Thanks,

The cheapest way is to cut it with a strimmer and rake up and dump the grass. The keep mowing it every week

bigbrotherfan

Keep mowing and spread a weed and feed, at the appropriate time. That should nourish the grass and get rid of most of the weeds in the easiest way. You can be refining it next year.

fionny

Great thanks for the advice! We do need to turn it as its very unlevel at the moment though.

looksee

When you have rotavated, rake off what weeds you can. There will be weed seeds in the soil and they will grow, all you can do is treat them after the lawn has grown. Most of them will disappear after mowing a couple of times - they get discouraged. Look out for young dandelions and other tough weeds and spot treat them, weed and feed, or pull them as you see them. As the grass improves there will be less weediness.

Scutch and bindweed will regrow from bits of root, most of the others will not, unless there is a large and fairly undamaged section of root that takes hold again.