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Weeds

widdup123widdup123 Posts: 4
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hi, can anyone advise what these weeds are? I want a killer to use that doesn’t kill the grass. Thanks in advance 

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  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Welcome to our forums, @widdup123 .
    Unfortunately the pic of your weeds has been shrouded in Harry Potter's cloak of invisibility, so it's difficult to advise. ;)
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  • widdup123widdup123 Posts: 4
    Papi Jo said:
    Welcome to our forums, @widdup123 .
    Unfortunately the pic of your weeds has been shrouded in Harry Potter's cloak of invisibility, so it's difficult to advise. ;)
    Should be visible now, thanks :smile:
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Did you collect all of those on your lawn? Seems like an awful lot. I'm very much anti-chemical products myself and weed my lawn by hand, so cannot advise.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    @widdup123 Photos of the weeds as growing plants are what we need to see in order to identify them.

    But why do you need to kill them?  A lawn full of wild flowers is more beneficial to wildlife, and IMHO, and a lot of others I think would agree, more worth looking at than a uniform green monoculture.
  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    Is it creeping cinquefoil? I have this in my lawn and other places. It is a bit of a pain because it spreads so far but at the moment I'm tolerating it in the lawn and digging it up elsewhere so can't advise on treatment.
  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    Just googled it and Wyevale site says that lawn weedkillers will control it.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    josusa47 said:

    But why do you need to kill them?  A lawn full of wild flowers is more beneficial to wildlife, and IMHO, and a lot of others I think would agree, more worth looking at than a uniform green monoculture.
    The lawn seeds I used consist of 5 different grass species. Not really a monoculture. ;) 
    A lawn full of wildflowers is a prairie, not a lawn. I love wild flowers in the wild, but IMHO they have no place in a lawn in an ornamental garden. But each to their own.
    And again I don't use any weed killer or pesticide in my garden.
  • widdup123widdup123 Posts: 4
    Singing Gardener said:
    Is it creeping cinquefoil? I have this in my lawn and other places. It is a bit of a pain because it spreads so far but at the moment I'm tolerating it in the lawn and digging it up elsewhere so can't advise on treatment.
    Yes! That’s it! It is a pain and it’s overtaken not just of my gardens I have never used chemicals no my garden either but it’s this is all in my flower beds. I have pulled out 2/3 brown bins full over a few weeks. It’s growing as fast as I pull them up!
    Papa Jo said:
    Did you collect all of those on your lawn? Seems like an awful lot. I'm very much anti-chemical products myself and weed my lawn by hand, so cannot advise.


  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    The red fleshy stems shown in your top picture, I'm guessing, could be Herb Robert
    Image result for herb robert geranium

    This is easily pulled out of a garden. It has small pink flowers so try to pull it out before it sets seeds. It has quite a distinctive smell.



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