Garden full of weeds and moss

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Hi! I hope you more experienced gardeners can help.

My garden is an absolute disaster, we literally don't go in there for the whole winter, it is north facing and it is now full of moss and weeds. I don't know how to get rid of weeds, some are so big, no way I can get rid of them with the roots, so when I have removed them in the past, they have grown back (even after pouring boiling water on them)

I tried a while ago these products that are supposed to kill the weeds and feed the lawn (I don't remember the brand I used), yes, some of the smaller weeds went a grey colour and die but I didn't notice much difference to be honest. Did I use too little products? I was afraid of using too much in case I also killed the lawn.

What if I use lots to kill everything and start all over again? could then plant lawn seeds? Or will the soil with some much of the product residue not grow anything on it?

I really don't know what to do, I would like to keep a nice simple garden as it is quite small anyway but so bad at this! On the plus side I got a couple of climbing roses that are not too bad!

The weeds are in the lawn, right?

I'd manually just cut them down and then regularly mow the lawn. For the most part that will kill the weeds eventually by constantly weakening them. Or if it doesn't kill them, it'll still make them better behaved.

I'd only take the time to dig out the bigger more bullish ones that mowing didn't tame.

Probably not much help, but I'm now cultivating the moss in my lawn and calling it a moss lawn. I have a very small north facing garden and a lazy/eco approach to gardening.

Yes, the weeds are in the lawn.
Some weeds are massive, no way I can remove the roots.
I think I will try to use the weed killer product again and then try to mown the lawn every week or at least every two weeks.

I wouldn't worry about the moss, just leave it.

This Tool for removing weeds really does work, and it does get all the roots out. You might want to fill the holes with sand afterwards.

How much of a gardener are you (ie how much time do you have) is getting rid of the lawn on the cards? You might even want to do it gradually, to make it less of a focus.

I was watching this video the other day on tips for a Shady garden (goodness knows why as I have a huge garden which is south/north/west facing) and it has some interesting ideas, including not having a lawn.

I am not much of a gardener. From November to March I just don't go to the garden at all and do nothing, I let it be. From March to November I mow the lawn every 2 -3 weeks. I prune my climbing roses and feed them rose feed sometimes, that's about all I do in the garden. I do not have much time (or energy) to dedicate a lot of time to gardening unfortunately.
I considered putting artificial grass but apparently that comes with its own problems.

Thank you for that link, I'll have a look!