2 questions from a newbie gardener
bryman6000
Posts: 9
Hi,
I have recently bought a house house with a decent sized garden that was ridiculously overgrown....not with weeds but an incredible amount of different plants. There was some lawn but two enormous borders filled with all manner of stuff like baby oak trees, ferns, apple trees, grasses, bulbs, loads of bushes and millions of things I can’t even begin to name.
Anyway we have decided to reclaim some lawn to allow our 2 yr old space to play so I have spent a lot (and I mean a lot) of man hours reducing the size of these borders and trying to keep what we want and moving other plants around etc. I’ve done my utmost to dig up roots and bulbs etc and rotivate the soil as best I can. I then seeded it wil grass seed.
I expected that the plants would come through as the weather warmed and that is the case. So I have the grass now growing but loads and loads of unwanted plants coming up too where my new grass should be. So my beginners question is what can I do to encourage the grass to grow and stop the other plants coming up as well. Is there a weed killer I can buy that will kill off the plants but not the grass? Ideally does anyone know one that is safe for a toddler to run about on whilst it is doing its thing? I’ve basically been using my strimmers to try to keep the ‘weeds’ down whilst the grass seed comes through in the home that the grass will eventually ‘out compete’ it or something. Any other advice for cheap ways to deal with this would be appreciated.
my second question is....can anyone identify the weed in my picture as it is everywhere in my garden (including where I want my grass to be)....and how can I kill this off?
thanks in advance!
bryan
I have recently bought a house house with a decent sized garden that was ridiculously overgrown....not with weeds but an incredible amount of different plants. There was some lawn but two enormous borders filled with all manner of stuff like baby oak trees, ferns, apple trees, grasses, bulbs, loads of bushes and millions of things I can’t even begin to name.
Anyway we have decided to reclaim some lawn to allow our 2 yr old space to play so I have spent a lot (and I mean a lot) of man hours reducing the size of these borders and trying to keep what we want and moving other plants around etc. I’ve done my utmost to dig up roots and bulbs etc and rotivate the soil as best I can. I then seeded it wil grass seed.
I expected that the plants would come through as the weather warmed and that is the case. So I have the grass now growing but loads and loads of unwanted plants coming up too where my new grass should be. So my beginners question is what can I do to encourage the grass to grow and stop the other plants coming up as well. Is there a weed killer I can buy that will kill off the plants but not the grass? Ideally does anyone know one that is safe for a toddler to run about on whilst it is doing its thing? I’ve basically been using my strimmers to try to keep the ‘weeds’ down whilst the grass seed comes through in the home that the grass will eventually ‘out compete’ it or something. Any other advice for cheap ways to deal with this would be appreciated.
my second question is....can anyone identify the weed in my picture as it is everywhere in my garden (including where I want my grass to be)....and how can I kill this off?
thanks in advance!
bryan
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Guess I’ll just have to kill it off and start again!!!
Thank you! :-)
I’ve already seeded unfortunately! Oh well lesson learned!!!!
will something like roundup kill off everything under the soil?
if so....how long should I then leave it before re-seeding the grass do you think?
cheers