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Can anyone tell me what this weed is and how to get rid of it

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  • 18-04-2020 10:41am
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    Elwood_Blues
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    Can anybody tell me what this weed is (see attached) and the best way to get rid of it with out destroying the lawn. Just seems to be popping up everywhere. Lawn was only newly seeded a year ago..

    Cheers


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    zerosugarbuzz
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    Elwood_Blues wrote: »
    Can anybody tell me what this weed is (see attached) and the best way to get rid of it with out destroying the lawn. Just seems to be popping up everywhere. Lawn was only newly seeded a year ago..


    It’s clover ...


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    KAGY
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    Elwood_Blues wrote: »
    Can anybody tell me what this weed is (see attached) and the best way to get rid of it with out destroying the lawn. Just seems to be popping up everywhere. Lawn was only newly seeded a year ago..

    Cheers

    Its a tyoe of clover, generally a sign of poor fertility. It can be benifitial, fixing nitrogen into the soil then the grass actually out competes it.
    I leave my lawn relatively high and actually like it and its flowers.
    Cutting and mulching regularly will help reduce it, but a feed and weed would work too if you don't mind chemical means

    https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/solve-problems/clover/


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    Tiercel Dave
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    Don't know how to get rid of it but it looks like Clover to me.....


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    zerosugarbuzz
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    It actually makes a great lawn, doesn’t require mowing and is environmentally friendly. Shame it’s not in fashion.


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    magicbastarder
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    it's not in fashion partly because lawn weed and feeds kill it, so it suits the chemical companies who make that stuff to portray it as a weed.


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    [Deleted User]
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    You're in clover.


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    Elwood_Blues
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    Sounds like we're in Cloverfield then.. Will try and just fertilise the lawn, keep the grass high and see how it goes.. Don't really want to use any chemicals if I don't have to..

    Thanks all


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    magicbastarder
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    Elwood_Blues wrote: »
    Will try and just fertilise the lawn
    you're in luck, clover adds nitrogen so fertilises the soil.


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    Danzy
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    Elwood_Blues wrote: »
    Can anybody tell me what this weed is (see attached) and the best way to get rid of it with out destroying the lawn. Just seems to be popping up everywhere. Lawn was only newly seeded a year ago..

    Cheers

    White clover.

    If you use lots of nitrogen fertiliser, it sets it back, let the grass grow high, starve of light.

    That kills it, unfortunately, in farm land.

    No idea in a garden.


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