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Lawn, weed, weedkiller.

dpatel2130dpatel2130 Posts: 201
in Problem solving
Got a lawn bone dry. Weed is still green and happily growing. I am thinking of get rid of weed using weed killer. I need advice for which and when to use weedkiller. Thank you in advance. 

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That looks like the common yarrow. It's thriving because the conditions suit it and not your grass. Once you get rain, it'll disappear when mown. 
    You could use one of the spot weedkillers available. It might work just now, but yarrow is quite persistent. 
    It's also very pretty, so it might be worth encouraging it instead of the grass if you get lots of dry weather!
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • dpatel2130dpatel2130 Posts: 201
    @Fairygirl, Thank you. They say global warming will cause more of weather and hot temperatures like this year. So lawn will be difficult to look after. So common yarrow can be good to have in garden. I have to give use of the weedkiller second thought. 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's certainly a growing problem for many parts of the country @dpatel2130 . When grass goes without water for even a couple of weeks, it dries out and browns, and other plants/weeds get the upper hand.
    I think many people will start to look at their gardens differently in future, especially in the SE of England. Precious resources can't keep being wasted on a patch of grass, which will recover anyway in autumn. A sprinkler running for an hour uses around 1000 litres of water. That's roughly ten days usage for an average household. It makes no sense to use it on grass.
    I hope you can find a solution - now and for the future. I'm glad we don't have that difficulty here, although I still see people using sprinklers locally, which makes me angry. It just isn't needed in our climate in the west of Scotland. I expect it's because we've never really had a shortage of water, so folk don't think about being careful with it at all  :/
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • dpatel2130dpatel2130 Posts: 201
    @Fairygirl, Certainly not watering grass and thinking of using grey water for plants and also a plants in the garden which need less water. Even water will be expensive as it will be metered.
    As always we find some people wasting water for sprinklers, washing cars with hose, washing patios like there will be no tommorow but nothing we can do. People need to change their attitude specially about nature and its resources. 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I agree. It's easy to slip into these habits and see water as just something that's always there, until it isn't. The song lyric # you never miss your water till the well runs dry, was never more appropriate. 
    I pass a house regularly where the man waters his grass - even when there's been recent rain, plus more in our forecast, and also when it's raining. Utterly ludicrous. He had it on a few days ago when I went past. On the way back, over an hour later, it was still on in another area. I presume he just kept moving it. The saddest thing is - his grass looks rubbish because he always shaves it, and it's also full of dips and hollows. I see people pressure washing paving too. Madness. 
    We wouldn't normally have to worry, but we had a very dry winter - never known it so dry, and I've lived in the general area all my life. That means we shouldn't be complacent, because we're getting more frequent dry spells year on year. 
    The problem in the south, where long dry spells aren't an unknown event, seems to be the usual one of 'the powers that be' just not addressing it decades down the line. More reservoirs instead of stupid high speed railways would be a start. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • dpatel2130dpatel2130 Posts: 201
    @Fairygirl, selfish people they are. Let's prey for rain and some sense in those who think washing cars, cleaning pavements, watering lawn etc is more important than thinking about the fellow human beings, nature and the mother earth. 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Indeed, although I think common sense is in rather short supply nowadays.  :/
    If everyone just did a tiny little bit each day - using less of lots of things, we'd maybe be better prepared for whatever else is round the corner.

    Well - that's us put the world to rights @dpatel2130. Not much help with your lawn though!  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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