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Rapeseed growing in my lawn - help!
Roberta 2
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I'm renovating an old french farmhouse in charente maritime and have recently had the top four inches of soil removed by the local farmer as was full of weeds/thistles/nettles etc after 10 years of being left to go wild. He kindly replaced with soil from his farm. We then sowed new grass seed And hoped that a lovely lawn would emerge. Perhaps unsurprisingly I've now got a growth not of luscious grass but of rapeseed. What do I do to get rid of this and get back to trying to grow grass for a lovely lawn? Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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Roberta
Think weedkiller will be the only way to go. Not sure if the standard ones available will do the job but someone else might know if they're suitable.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Oh dear Roberta
I think Fg is right, weedkiller will be needed. Ask your 'helpful' farmer if he has a herbicide which removes broad-leaved weeds from pasture or grain crops while leaving the grass intact.
Good luck
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It wont survive mowing. If the grass is long enough to cut, just mow it.
That's what I'd do, it's only an annual
In the sticks near Peterborough