New Lawn

gareth17 · June 2016

Hi

I have bought a house that the garden has been let go for about 10 years

There where thousands of weeds, wild garlic and generally out of control plants.

After a bit of hard work and about 60 tons of material removed, it now looks like this

I am now planning to add new top soil then lawn and replant the garden but there are still a few weeds and plants and wild garlic that need killing off / removing before I do.

Can I please ask for some advice as to what the most effective method would be, to ensure that most of whatever is currently in the soil wont come through after I lay the new lawn.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Fairygirl · June 2016

Hi Gareth, you've done a great job so far. I'd suggest you allow any new weed growth to come through and then apply a good weedkiller to that new growth. If you use something like Resolva, it works very quickly. Weedkillers need enough foliage to work well but I find it works even on small amounts. If you're organic though, you'll have to keep removing any perennial weeds as they come through, and when you feel you've got no more appearing, that would be the time to lay turf or sow seed.

You'll always get some weeds coming through the grass, or seeding in, so it's a case of attending to that in future years once you have your new lawn

gareth17 · June 2016

Thank you for your reply and your compliment.

I will get some Resolva and start that today. So will the Resolva kill all the plants that are currently there or just weeds ?

I guess what i'm asking is whether or not I still have a load of digging to do !

Fairygirl · June 2016

It will kill everything Gareth, so you'll have to be careful if there are plants you want to keep. Remove them first. You also need to make sure there is some reasonable growth to apply it to, but it's far more effective than any of the others as it acts very quickly.

I've found in the past that the usual ones ( Round up etc) take so long to work on dandelions, for example, that they get time to flower and set seed before it kills them!

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