Tootles - creeping buttercups are like dandelions - if you don't get the roots out they'll come back. They're perennial - more perennial than some perennials!
My front grass here was mainly buttercups, daisies and dandies with moss thrown in for good measure. A year or so on, and it's had a couple of applications of weed and feed, with an extra feed or two thrown in, it's now mostly grass and looking pretty good. You just have to keep on top of it if you want a reasonable looking lawn. Easy enough if it's a small area. Not so easy if it's large though, or next to fields, where you get the 'field' creeping back in .
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Westland feed weed and moss killer is the one we use and ours is looking good considering we have fields on all 4 sides that are organic, so a 20 ft break of weeds. At the moment they are full of fluffy seed heads, one way or another we will cop them.
If you have lots of moss it will go black and look awful for a while but as the feed takes hold the grass will take over.
I am not sure if it may be better to wait till spring, you dont really want the grass to grow too much now as you will be cutting through the winter.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Hi it may be trefoil as Mike suggests. I had an infestation a year or 2 ago after weeding and feeding my lawn. It colonises the gaps left by the death of the other weeds. I rang the manufacturer who explained it to me.Therefore standard weed and feed will not work on it... try Verdone instead.
Does it grow the same way as buttercup Woody? Flumpy described runners like strawberries. I've never had trefoil in any garden so I'm not familiar with it's habit. Interesting to hear that it works like that though. Just when you think you've cracked it eh?..
Do you think 'Verdun' will be happy to come and weed the garden though....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It looks like a very small strawberry plant, with yellow flowers. There could be runners but it is a year or so since I saw it. Verdone worked on mine.
I think Verd. should help, as it's clearly named after him. Perhaps he gets a rake-off?
I've probably seen trefoil but certainly not in any of my gardens, although I thought the flowers were more pea like. Perhaps it doesn't like the conditions here
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If it ever stops raining I will try and find a piece and take a photo, I got rid of the moss in spring and the lawn looked lovely a month later, I do keep seeing the odd yellow flower popping up, is this part of the weed ?
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Tootles - creeping buttercups are like dandelions - if you don't get the roots out they'll come back. They're perennial - more perennial than some perennials!
My front grass here was mainly buttercups, daisies and dandies with moss thrown in for good measure. A year or so on, and it's had a couple of applications of weed and feed, with an extra feed or two thrown in, it's now mostly grass and looking pretty good. You just have to keep on top of it if you want a reasonable looking lawn. Easy enough if it's a small area. Not so easy if it's large though, or next to fields, where you get the 'field' creeping back in
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks everyone, I will get some feed and weed and keep you all posted
Westland feed weed and moss killer is the one we use and ours is looking good considering we have fields on all 4 sides that are organic, so a 20 ft break of weeds. At the moment they are full of fluffy seed heads, one way or another we will cop them.
If you have lots of moss it will go black and look awful for a while but as the feed takes hold the grass will take over.
I am not sure if it may be better to wait till spring, you dont really want the grass to grow too much now as you will be cutting through the winter.
Hi it may be trefoil as Mike suggests. I had an infestation a year or 2 ago after weeding and feeding my lawn. It colonises the gaps left by the death of the other weeds. I rang the manufacturer who explained it to me.Therefore standard weed and feed will not work on it... try Verdone instead.
Does it grow the same way as buttercup Woody? Flumpy described runners like strawberries. I've never had trefoil in any garden so I'm not familiar with it's habit. Interesting to hear that it works like that though. Just when you think you've cracked it eh?..
Do you think 'Verdun' will be happy to come and weed the garden though....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It looks like a very small strawberry plant, with yellow flowers. There could be runners but it is a year or so since I saw it. Verdone worked on mine.
I think Verd. should help, as it's clearly named after him. Perhaps he gets a rake-off?
That's bad Woody...worthy of his Verdun-ness
I've probably seen trefoil but certainly not in any of my gardens, although I thought the flowers were more pea like. Perhaps it doesn't like the conditions here
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If it ever stops raining I will try and find a piece and take a photo, I got rid of the moss in spring and the lawn looked lovely a month later, I do keep seeing the odd yellow flower popping up, is this part of the weed ?
We need that photo flumpy
There's buttercup, that's quite substantial in leaf and stem compared to the others
a legume I know as black meddick, that may be the trefoil Mike is talking about, Trifolium dubium
Cinquefoil, buttercup-like flowers but wirier stems.
In the sticks near Peterborough