How to remove these from my field

bassy

Hi all I cut my back garden that had not been cut in years and I've never seen so called grass like it before,it's really thick and heavey and walking on it is like walking on sods.

So I'm left with bunion type heads all over and there like the way you would see rushes when there cut low am left with a big spiked up heads and there a few inches off the ground.

Any idea how I can remove them or would spraying it help,I want to turn it in to a lawn.

Here's a pic

https://ibb.co/56S0Z88

Bass Reeves

If you are going to lay a lawn allow it to regrow and spray with roundup and just till and seed it. Fertility of ground will need to be got right so get a soil test done.

However if you do not intend to till and to reseed the lawn you could try burning them with a gas torch

Track9

bassy wrote: »

Hi all I cut my back garden that had not been cut in years and I've never seen so called grass like it before,it's really thick and heavey and walking on it is like walking on sods.

So I'm left with bunion type heads all over and there like the way you would see rushes when there cut low am left with a big spiked up heads and there a few inches off the ground.

Any idea how I can remove them or would spraying it help,I want to turn it in to a lawn.

Here's a pic

https://ibb.co/56S0Z88

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That ground would be perfect for Pigs / Boars.
They would burrow & rotavate the ground for you.
Apparently all they need for control is two strands of electric fence.
Some kind of shelter ( IBC Tanks / Old Oil Tanks, but cleaned for Piggy
Some water, again if not available IBC Tanks might work.
Pigs would need ration feeding. Very organic & would improve the ground for you. Best of luck whatever you decide.

GinSoaked

Just keep cutting it, won't be long before it looks a lot more lawn like.

Those thick clumpy grasses soon go if you keep cutting.

bassy

Thanks lads for the advice and help,was thinking goats as well cause the virtually eat anything to.couple of sheep,but not possible really because of dogs in the neighborhood.

What's the best spray to use on it,heard some folk say roundup is not all it's cracked up to be??.

Any idea on a knock out spray that will kill everything in it's path.

_Brian

If it’s a tight “lawn” your looking for you will need to till and seed.

If your looking for a “garden” run just keep mowing it at a decent Height regularly and it will come along fine.

forgottenhills

Track9 wrote: »

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That ground would be perfect for Pigs / Boars.
They would burrow & rotavate the ground for you.
Apparently all they need for control is two strands of electric fence.
Some kind of shelter ( IBC Tanks / Old Oil Tanks, but cleaned for Piggy
Some water, again if not available IBC Tanks might work.
Pigs would need ration feeding. Very organic & would improve the ground for you. Best of luck whatever you decide.

This land is for a lawn according to the OP, so I assume close to a house, and a few sows/pigs/boars on it would soon create quite the whiff that the OP would hardly appreciate in his or her living room.

It would be much simpler to burn off those clumps with Roundup or similar and rake in some lawn seed some weeks later by hand in the burned off patches after raking out the roots of those clumps..