New to gardening- Help with weed

 


Hello there,

I have just moved to a house with a garden, which is something new for
me. It is
in a real state, full of weeds. It has a considerable size
(10mx5m) approx. and
although we have removed all the weed (we thought
from the root) is all come
back within days!
We just want a low maintenance garden... just a lawn, no plants, no
flowers but
we cant get rid of the lawn.
Any suggestions? Id be very grateful if somebody can help me with this.

Many thanks,

Miriam




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lullaby1979

 


Any idea where you live?

 

lullaby1979 wrote:

Concrete.  Painted green if you want it to be natural.

D

 

Deciphering your request - you want to remove the weeds from an old
garden and have a lawn?  

Getting all the weed  roots out of a garden can be difficult,
depending on what the weed is - dandelion and bermuda grass roots
cannot be easily removed, and they can come back from just a tiny bit
left in the soil.

If you want a lawn - fastest way is one that will set some people here
off - spray roundup or similar on the garden and wait 2 weeks to see
if all plants were killed, repeat if necessary (bermuda grass usually
takes a couple of hits to die).  Then ferilize, and do what is called
over-seeding with your prefered grass  (I usually use Scott's).  It
will likely take a few years to get a good grass stand.  Do realize
that weed seeds can wait years to germinate, so you will need to spray
something that stops germination in the spring to prevent them from
starting.  Once you have a good stand of grass, it will shade out the
weed seeds on its own.


On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:05:50 +0000, lullaby1979

 

I would say wrong time of year for seed in the northern hemisphere.
First cut down the weeds, smooth the area and put down grass sod.  You will have
to
water that every day.  Now the weeds will come up thru the sod, but use broad
leaf
killer when they sprout.  apply pre-emergent in spring with fertilizer, but most
important is water and cutting the grass frequently with sharp blades. use a
mulching
mower and you wont need to apply almost any fertilizer at all.  

we had a rental with tall weeds in the back yard, wooden fence down that
smothered
1/3 swath of the grass, and was a dump area for old broken backyard stuff.  In
July
we carted all the crap out of there, pulled the big weeds, sprayed with broad
weed
killer, seeded, fertilized and watered every day.  by the end of summer it was a
VERY
nice looking lawn.  




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