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help! need a solution for our lawn!
we are having major weed issues on our lawn, like the entire lawn is completely covered in clovers and other carpet weeds. There is barely any grass left. DH wants to use toxic pesticides to get rid of it and then fertilize it after to re-grow the grass. I am totally anti-pesticide usage! Especially since we have a baby! Does anyone know of some more natural solution to get rid of weeds? thanks!
Re: help! need a solution for our lawn!
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We do the same. By mid-summer the grass chokes out most of the weeds anyway.
We have the same problem. I don't mind the clover much, but the dandelions drive me batty.
I think we are going to lightly apply a broadleaf weed killer. I figure as long as we are very careful not to apply too much, and do it on a good day weather-forecast wise, it will be not so bad.
I started trying to dig them up by hand but after about an hour I quit.
I just got one of these a couple of days ago, and it is amazing for pulling up weeds: http://www.fiskars.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=11151&catalogId=10251&categoryId=10869&productId=11204&page=products
It's super easy to use - I was even doing it while wearing 2.5" heels after work the day I picked it up (I was pretty excited to try it, lol). It took me about an hour to get all the visible (i.e. blooming) dandelions the first day I got it, and I've been heading out for a few minutes a day since then to get them as I see them start blooming. Is my yard weed-free yet? No, and probably never will be - but it is pesticide free!
This. I think Americans place waayy too much of an emphasis on having the perfect, green lawn of only grass. Ecologically that's a monoculture abnormality, which we're spending tons of money and ruining lakes and streams to hold onto. Ask yourself why. Why are the clovers somehow worse than the grass? Why it is a status symbol to poison your yard so much that your child can't play in it, just so you have only grass? The American obsession with lawns makes no sense to me. Other counties don't do it.
Clover is so good for the soil though! I want more clover in my lawn!!
Well you could have the sod ripped up, amend your soil and then grow grass again.
Taken care of weeds naturally is a lot of elbow grease and longterm lawn maintenance, keeping the lawn healthy and using a mulching mower, etc.