Please Help... Dock Leaves on grass

calnmui

Hi there,
So we have just moved home and our new lawn area is absolutely overrun with dock leaves. It is impossible to mow with a lawn mower and my strimmer is overheating and cutting out.

Can anyone please help with some suggestions on how to tame this garden, im at my witts end.

Thank you

if anyone can tell me how to post pictures i can show you

mysterymurdoch

Just one spray with verdone will see to it

DaftyDuck

Sadly, no it won't. I wish it would, as I have several acres :eek: of dock-infested grass. For a young, yet-to-establish dock, it may work. However, it will not kill a deep-rooted and established plant, it's rather too late to spray this year, nor will it affect the many seeds that have already been shed. They can survive for 90+ years....

However, worry not. Persistence is key. This year, you are too late for useful spraying. Ensure none seed. Pull them if necessary. Slightly sharpen a spade, and stab them one inch underground.

Next year, start mowing early, before they grow large. Spray then; I'd use SBK Brushwood lawn weedkiller. Keep smacking any that survive. They will not become large enough to be a problem.

Oh, goats love them, as do many primitive sheep.

However.... having written all that, are you sure they are docks? To upload a photo, use a hosting site like photo bucket, and post the link using the button that looks like a postcard of mountains!

mysterymurdoch

I treat gardens professionally and have eradicated dock with single applications of Relay, same active ingredients as verdone I believe. No harm in keeping the rest of the bottle for a repeat application 12 months later though!