nettles and weeds best killer lawn and patio

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We seem be growing nice crop of nettles and weeds ,in garden and seem grow on the patio

know will never knock on head permantly as have field next to me that has nice big crop of nettles and railway track near by to though has lots of erm weeds and only other house near by best way of describing gaqrden is wildlife .

What is best killer to keep patio clear fed up keep clearing it and how keep under control in garden

The only weedkiller I use is glyphosate because it's absorbed into the plant and doesn't stay in the ground. It is a total weedkiller so will murder every single thing around. Do not use on a blowy day or it will hit other plants. But it is the best thing if you totally want to rid the patio clear.

For the lawn you can get selective broad leaved weedkillers so they will kill weeds (which have broad leaves) and leave the grass alone. You can get it in a weed and feed mix which does both jobs at once. This isn't a great time to feed lawns though (should do spring and autumn) so look for just the weedkiller

And nettles will only grow in fertile soil so you're doing alright on that front!

Thank you

dam i must have real fertile soil

Nettles are good for butterflies it's a shame to use weedkiller just pull them up on yr patio and mow yr. lawn regularly they'll give up, honest!

ppeatfruit the field next to mine has a a lot of nettles an dmean a lot like 4 foot high

so chances of them given up are zilch even with mowing lawn every week

Nettles tend to spread pretty much by creeping roots, not by seeding. It's perfectly possible to keep your garden clean, you just have to get rid of the roots. The next field is pretty irrelevant.

When the ground is moist, you need to actually dig out the nettles possibly using a hand fork or similar. As you get used to it, you will recognise the yellowy roots a mile off and it's simple to keep the odd bit under control after that.

Glyphosate is all very well, but it's a sledgehammer. And if you were ever considering growing food in the garden, there's many a grower who would never use it on a food growing area, despite the manufacturer's safety claims.

I was only suggesting using it on the patio catinthehat - I agree with you - it's a plant serial killer

LB - it is indeed Funny Stuff....

The strong stuff will be for one side of the house no plants lawn there just patio sorry my fault fir not clarfing

as for the nettles problem I have is there growing through the fence to but will try keeping them cut back ,plan is long term to lose the lawn area totaly

If you are losing the grass, then you are in a good position. Would it be possible to start a quarantine strip in the mean time?

Take away the grass at the fence edge to leave a strip of bare earth, then you can us e the wet day/hand fork method to take out roots. Nettles left in the grass can be mown and murdered until they give up. But becasue of the bare earth strip, they can't be fed a nd resourced by the netwoek of roots from he field.