Weeds help needed

michdee

Hi All, new to gardening and could really do with a little advice or help re weeds in our lawn. When we first moved into our house we got our lawn treated and was told we'd have a football pitch quality lawn after doing the course. We got a full years treatment on our lawn and now a year later it looks shocking. We have thistles, docks, ragworth in it..... Can any of you advise the best way to treat our lawn and get rid of all of these. I have pictures attached below, any advice would be most welcomed

.42.

Cutting your grass consistently would help.

To have a “ football pitch quality lawn “ you need to put in effort

I guessing you are not cutting it weekly.

You are not detaching it,

You are not adding fertilizer.

You are not aerating it

You are not top dressing it

You are not overseeing it.

You are not using lawn safe weed killer.

michdee

Thanks, we normally do keep our lawn cut short, however we were away for the week and returned to this.....
To have football pitch quality lawn is what the person said we'd have after they treated it.

.42.

First spot spray the lawn with Resolva Lawn Weedkiller and leave it for a few days . Before mowing the lawn

michdee

.42. wrote: »

First spot spray the lawn with Resolva Lawn Weedkiller and leave it for a few days . Before mowing the lawn

Thank you will check this out, appreciate that

.42.

When the weeds and clover are dead which can take up to 2 weeks then I would cut the lawn at its lowest setting Which will scalp the lawn. Detatch the whole lawn with a rake. Then add a fertilizer using a spreader don’t spread straight from the box, high chance of burning the lawn

Ask for a 10-10-10 fertilizer or something close .Increase the lawn height by an Inch and remember the 1/3 rule. Only cut one third of the grass height for a healthy lawn.

When coming into autumn, overseed the lawn with something like perennial rye grass which will thicken the lawn which will out compete the weeds.

.42.

Remember bag the clippings when mowing over them weeds

michdee

That's great info thanks so much. Will def try this

magicbastarder

michdee wrote: »

To have football pitch quality lawn is what the person said we'd have after they treated it.

you got this done a year ago and they said it'd last a year? you were lied to.

also, there's nothing wrong with clover in a lawn. clover fertilises your lawn and is more drought resistant than grass.

michdee

Don't mind the clover as much as the rest of the stuff in it. Interesting though I never knew that about clover