Those of you with fabulous green weed free lawns, HOW DO YOU DO IT????

[HeinzSight]

HUH?? HOW ?

I've tried for yrs to sort out lawn out.

Re-seeding
Adding topsoil and compost and sharps sand
Using weed and feed stuff etc....

Admittedly our garden does end up shaded a lot of the time, so that doesn't help, but I've bought seeds for shady areas.

I wish I knew.

Had mine returfed professionally last year, and it looks just as bad now as it used to do.

I've tried that weed and feed stuff, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

what's the problem? moss? bare patches?

shade is rubbish for lawns, specially if they get walked on much. We've decided that our lawn is a 'freedom lawn', and never use chemicals etc. on it - there are some really horrible things in lawn care products, and you walk on lawns in bare feet, children play on them etc. etc.

What has worked? Adding an inch or so of sand every now and again (bloody hard work). Aerating with a hollow tined fork (even harder). Never just lying down on the lawn but always making sure you have a knife handy to dig out the creeping buttercup, self-heal, dandelions, creeping jenny etc.

Yes, moss and bare patches.

Each yr I re-seed the bare patches and add top soil and sand.

I've tried aerating with a normal fork, haven't tried the hollow one, will look into that.

I agree about the lawn care products, if anything, they seem to scorch the lawn.

We're hoping this yr the lawn will be better as we don't let out dog out there anymore, he has to survive with lots of walks instead. Now we've got a toddler running around we didn't really want dog poo residue out there!

In an issue of GW magazine about lawns it basically said, if you have shade, then learn to live with the moss! Fair enough i thought, that's a weight off my mind!

Second the other stuff jam sandwich says. If they are established you need to dig them out including root if you can.

Feed n weed seems to work quite well for me.

regular mowing keeps the weeds down as well, as it keeps chopping them up - while the grass is happy to be cut the weeds aren't.

We also do the tining...

Blimmin moss , blimmin stupid house facing wrong way

Move the house a few feet over to allow sunlight onto lawn?

mine is mostly always in the shade, but i don't seem to have many weeds. was tuffgrass

thanks southeastastra, haven't tried tuffgrass.

BigBella, I WOULD LOVE TO!!!!!!!!!!!

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