At what point do you give up on weeds and completely returf?

coffee_king

Hey All
I know its probably WEED session right now, but I only have a little garden and I'm pulling out 25-30+ weeds a week/fortnight at the moment.
Its doing my head in!
Its been like this since I moved into my new property about 6 months ago.
I do remove the weed in its entirety, and have found my Fiskars Weed Puller a Godsend (Even if it does pull up a bit too much grass around the weed aswell).

The grass isnt the nicest in the first place (Awful meadow grass laid on rubble in a new-ish build).

Whats anyones thoughts on ripping it all up and putting something better down?
Thanks

scbk

What type of weeds are you removing?

amcluesent

Whats anyones thoughts on ripping it all up and putting something better down?

That's what I did...

coffee_king

scbk wrote: »

What type of weeds are you removing?

Errrrr, thats a really good question.
I dont honestly know. I guess they are dandelion type weeds as they look like this
http://www.lawncutting.co.uk/images/useful/w16.jpg
Does it make any difference what type of weeds they are?
Thanks!

lostinrates

What do you want to use the lawn for? Adults sedately walking, or kids/dogs?

Our grass is a mess, but ATM I just mow and ignore.....one day I'll reseed, not returf...after all this is MSE! If I had kids with balls or dogs and the weeds weren't poisonous or prickly I'd handle it in a different way to if I were an adult wanting a purely adult garden.

coffee_king

lostinrates wrote: »

What do you want to use the lawn for? Adults sedately walking, or kids/dogs?

Our grass is a mess, but ATM I just mow and ignore.....one day I'll reseed, not returf...after all this is MSE! If I had kids with balls or dogs and the weeds weren't poisonous or prickly I'd handle it in a different way to if I were an adult wanting a purely adult garden.

Purely adult, so I just want it to look nice. It doesnt get "Played" on as we dont have, nor plan to have children.

lostinrates

coffee_king wrote: »

Purely adult, so I just want it to look nice. It doesnt get "Played" on as we dont have, nor plan to have children.

Then I'd reseed. You'll still get weeds occasionally, but be staring from a clean slate.

coffee_king

lostinrates wrote: »

Then I'd reseed. You'll still get weeds occasionally, but be staring from a clean slate.

Not returf?

lostinrates

coffee_king wrote: »

Not returf?

Personally no, this is MSE, seed will be cheaper and i have patience and better things to spend money on

Dave101t

my grass is full of weeds, tho strangely not a single dandelion.
i have let it seed itsself, and am raking out the moss, the weeds come up easily, lots of bare patches tho.
keep seeding, watering, seeding, watering, raking, weeding and it will get there!

Mojisola

Have a look at GreenThumb - there are several other companies like them but I only have experience of this one. The weedkiller and fertilizer they apply made the world of difference to my parents' lawns.