Caring for a lawn and the edges of it
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31046)
United Kingdom
October 11, 2008 3:54am CST
My home countries weather was cool and rainy this summer so I have not done as much gardening as normal. My front lawn (grass) has many weeds in it like dandy lions and clover. So it looks really tatty indeed. I notice that the weeds and grass have grown into the cracks on the paving stones. I love nature and so I wouldn't want to harm any animals. I have two pet dogs and a cat is currently visiting me. I am vegan and usually buy gentle products. I have been to a do it yourself shop and seen weed killer but think it looks so strong. I worry about harming nature if I use a product like that. My back lawn has patches that have no grass so it looks awful. I so wish my garden looked as picturesque as it did this spring.
Have you any ideas of how I could sort out my lawns?
What sort of condition is your lawn in?
How do you get rid of weeds?
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3 responses
@schulzie (4061)
• United States
11 Oct 08
I'm sorry, I can't help you there. I need to get some weed and feed for my lawn as well. I guess just get out the weed whacker to clean up the areas around your paving stones and again spray some weed and feed, maybe throw down some new grass seed.
Have a great day and happy myLotting!!!
@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
11 Oct 08
I don't have a problem with weeds but I sure do have a problem with crab apples. I moved into a new place on June 1st and noticed that I have 4 apple trees. I was elated when I saw this and it was one of the reasons I took the new place. I thought, great, I can pick the apples and make jams and jellies and apple pies. But when the flowers on the trees started to go away and the apples started to grow, I was very dissappointed. The apples are all way too small to do anything with. It isn't worth picking them, so I left them all one the trees.
Now they are all falling off of the trees and I have thousands of little apples all over my lawn. I raked them up and picked some of them up and put them in garbage bags. I was going to throw them away but then a friend of mine said he could use them to feed the deers around his place. I never knew that deers ate apples, especially rotten apples. Won't they get drunk from them as they are fermented and stinky? I guess not because he showed up this morning with his truck, and took the ones I had bagged. I told him to come back again when I have more, but this time if he wants them he has to rake them and pick them up, as it is just hard work and I don't want to do it. I have places in my yard, right under the trees, that the piles are about a foot deep, and that is just what has fallen off of the trees. There are millions more to fall off still. Not looking forward to when they all fall off.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
11 Oct 08
Promise you won't laugh at poor Wolfie? Well it's not often you will see me down on my hands and needs crawling but I do in the grass, because I have a little tool which is great for the job of pulling those damn dandelions and getting them up by their roots, trouble with lawn mowing is that it cuts the tops off but leaves the roots to grow again, the tool I have is actually for cement! But it's pointed and it gets beneath the root and pulls it out, it's a long tiring job because you have to do it to every weed in the grass, but it's worth it and it's far better than using chemicals on it!
