Help with Garden Weeds

nirvanaa00 · July 2023

Hi All,

New to this forum. Inherited a lovely garden when I moved into my home a year ago. The last owner took good care of it. I get my grass cut professionally every 2 weeks. Unfortunately, recently I have noticed its over-run with weeds. I have used lawn weedkiller which has killed some of the weeds but I am not sure what to do next. Should I manually pull out these dead weeds and plant grass seeds? Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Thank you

Fairygirl · July 2023

That looks like Ajuga, or bugle - it's common name, @nirvanaa00 . It spreads by little runners, rooting as it goes. It's low growing, so a mower would only catch the top growth and the flowers which will have gone by now anyway, so it won't get the main rosette of foliage.
It's usually quite easy to pull out though, but you'd need to be sure you get it all, and don't let any flowers seed next year, as it spread that way too. If you try pulling that plant out, you'll possibly be able to see a fine root [runner] coming from the base of that one, and probably linked to another one nearby. There might be some tiny, fine roots coming from the runner too, which is what stabilises the plant as it spreads. If so, then it's likely to be that

Pete.8 · July 2023

If the weeds are dead, they'll disintegrate over a few months.
Once you're sure they're dead, you could pull them out if you want.
No need to re-seed or anything, grass spreads, so any gaps will vanish fast

Welcome to the forum

Fairygirl · July 2023

Yes - if you've used a weedkiller, they'll gradually go, but it can take a couple of weeks to take effect.
You may need to reapply if that's how you want to tackle it, because the new products are different from the glyphosate ones we used to have. If you bought it recently, the chances are it will be the newer type. You need adequate growth on the plants for them to work well though

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