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Weed identifucation
nellybert
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I'm brand new to gardening, having been a flat-dweller most of my adult life. We bought our first house this year and the garden had been left to go slightly wild by the previous owner. Currently battling to get the lawn back to at least being 90% grass and there's one weed that just won't go away - whatever we do, it just comes back!
I'm really hoping someone here can identify it and advise me on a good product to eradicate it without having to put a large chemical-burn across my lawn! All ideas welcome please. 
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I think you have field bindweed. The only thing that will kill it is glyphosate. Try one of the touchweeder sticks, just on its leaves.
Otherwise mowing it every three days should slow it down.
Last edited: 19 July 2016 22:19:10
Woops... looks like you have bindweed... Not an easy one on a lawn. You could continually pull the green growth off and try and weaken the plant till it gives up or use a broad leaf lawn weed killer. be careful of any plants growing near. Don't let it flower or it will re-seed everywhere! Good luck.
Ah, right, thanks. Looks like Roundup Gel is the easiest way to get glyphosate in a gel stick so I'll give that a try - Roundup spray did a good job on weeds growing through the patio, so hopefully that'll finally put it down!
I've coated the lawn in Weedol a couple of times and it just keeps coming back, was starting to think I'd have to sacrifice large patches of grass (in an already very patchy lawn) to kill it off.
Yes I'd just keep mowing it every few days. That'll kill it off in the lawn. Use your glyphosate to treat the bindweed in the borders - if you've got it in the lawn it's probably elsewhere too.
Good luck and welcome to the forum
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Its definitely in the borders too, but I'm not worried about dealing with that - we're in the middle of basically killing everything in what used to be the flowerbeds (now more of a who's-who of English weeds) so I'll be hitting those with a sprayer full of Roundup concentrate over the weekend. It's just the lawn where I'd like to treat it without killing all the grass too, especially as I spent ages digging/turning/seeding large parts of it.
It'll definitely be getting mowed regularly too - the lawn seems to need cutting every few days at the moment. I had no idea grass grew so quickly!
Hopefully by spring my posts will go from 'how do I kill this?' to 'what can I plant here?'
Last edited: 20 July 2016 09:40:22
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.