Eco-friendly weedkiller for lawns

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  April 2023 edited April 2023

  If it's specific individual plants that you want to remove, a long narrow weeding knife is good and you can be sure it's not harming any creatures. If you want a meadow, wouldn't you just allow whatever comes in to grow?
  

  PS welcome to the forum . I hope you find a solution that works for you.
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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• coccinella Posts: 1,428

  April 2023

  I am with JennyJ here. Nobody should be without a hori hori knife 😀 Seriously though you could try yellow rattle first. Here's a  link:
  
  https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/yellow-rattle
  
  PS establishing a meadow is no easy task, it takes a lot of patience too.
  
  

  
  Luxembourg

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• simonreiter2014 Posts: 2

  April 2023

  Thanks both - understand the comments - we don't want to treat all the lawn just a couple of nasty patches of creeping buttercup we have inherited in areas we want a bit more formal and controlled. we have a have a hori hori knife and agree its brilliant !

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  April 2023

  Hmm. Creeping buttercup is quite difficult to dig out because it's probably got a whole network of roots. If you're planning to keep that are mowed, you could try raking up the buttercup runners beforehand to lift them up so that it keeps getting chopped off. Otherwise check lawn weedkillers (which kill broad-leaved weeds but not grasses) to see if any of them would be suitable to use near aquatic life. You can probably get a spray and target just the area with the buttercups, on a still day to avoid drift.
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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