What is this growing?

sean.marson

Does anybody know what this is?  It's been growing in my lawn for the last couple of years.  If I cut the grass, its really quite stiff as you walk on it.

Is there a way I can get rid of it without digging the whole lawn up.

The other thing I would ask is I have an enormous amount of weeds on the lawn, I've tried all sorts of weed killer, which either kills the grass or simply doesn't work.  What do oyou consider the best weed killer or would you say dig up the garden and start again.

I suspect that when I bought the new build house, they just filled the garden with what was in the field before it was developed.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Sean

MuddyFork

Looks like a Willow herb, possibly rosebay.  They are normally easy to pull out.  Don't let it flower or seed.

Dovefromabove

I agree ... willowherb ... if it won’t pull out easily water it then gently loosen it bu ‘lifting’ with a hand fork then pulling it out. 

JennyJ

I think it's  better to dig out weeds if possible, but if you want to use weedkiller on your lawn, make sure it's one labelled lawn weedkilller.  General weedkillers will kill grass as well.

sean.marson

Thank you very much guy's, I knew if I posted the question here it would get answered. It looks like I have some work to do.

Thanks guys.