Like the caption says. I grew up in the woods in the country and know almost nothing about lawn care, but now I live in an urban residential area. Please be gentle.
by AssumptionFun3828
Like the caption says. I grew up in the woods in the country and know almost nothing about lawn care, but now I live in an urban residential area. Please be gentle.
by AssumptionFun3828
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Looks like creeping charlie to me. An invasive complete pest. I live next to woods that isn’t mine so can never completely eradicate it. You need to get every little bit and not leave the smallest piece as it can reroot. And never let them flower. That is 1000s of new seeds.
I watch for it the spring and eradicate it immediately using an herbicide if necessary. This will at least keep it under control as it can take over your lawn, your garden etc.
Ground ivy, aka creeping Charlie. Ubiquitous and tolerated in country settings, hated with a passion by suburbanites and urban residents. It often occupies portions of the lawn, I generally just mow it along with the “real” lawn. Bees do gather nectar from the flowers, and it flowers prior to the big summer blooming season. You can make an herbal tea from it, tastes kinda medicinal to me.
Ortho weed b gone purple label
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These are easy to hand pull, if you get them young. If you have them old, they get a longer tap root, which can be popped more easily after a good rain. I hand pull mine, by fluffing them up and finding the center of the plant, then with all the leaves in my hand, pull slightly sideways.
Ok – depending on your HOA/landlord, neighbors, and local laws…your lawn can be whatever you want.
We are currently working on replacing grass with micro clover, creeping lespedeza (i call it not clover), and henbit. I might swipe some wild violets while hiking, too… we just don’t have the time to mow, and I want to make friends with the bees.
I think it’s pretty. My lawn is pretty casual, some grass, some moss, some clover, some dandelions. It all mows fine and is soft to walk on. Live and let live, I say.
Let it take over completely. Add clover while you are at it. Never water your lawn again while it looks faaaaabulous. I’m so happy I did it to mine.
T-zone. You have to use it over a few seasons, but it seems to be working well for me so far
I completely eradicated it just by pulling it whenever I was bored or hanging out in the yard. I wanted to get rid of it because it was choking the grass. It’s so satisfying when you pull and get a nice long one… the grass eventually filled back in all of the voids created by the creeping Charlie.
KILL YOUR LAWN ALREADY
The bee hippies are out. Put flowers out for the bees and kill this bullshit. Triclopr 4 and metholated seed oil for surfactant.
It’s what is fixing your broken soil system. What’s your motivation for getting rid of it?
I got rid of my clover and now its mainly dirt. The clover is finally growing back and i will never kill it again.
My daughter had this in lawn everywhere when she moved. I cut grass the first summer. Every time I cut the grass I walked throughout yard i sprayed using the product for weeds in lawn. There are a couple of brands. Buy the concentrate, it’s cheaper. After one year, it’s was gone. Five years later, I have done her yard in years and although she has some weeds, because she has kids now and doesn’t treat lawn, this surprisingly didn’t come back.
This image is giving me PTSD. There is nothing that can be done.
I have it in my yard and I love it. Stays green when the grass gets tired. Makes a fun border where the grass meets the big rocks along the side of my patio. Sometimes weeds are fun!
Spray it with 2-4D .
A mix of clover and the purple is called texas frogfruit aka turkey tangle
Turf grass. It’s a strange sort of weed, it’s very temperamental and doesn’t readily colonize ecosystems outside of its native region, but it has a sort of half-symbiotic, half-parasitic relationship with a specific primate species that allows it to spread, but not really thrive. The primates plant it and fertilize it and irrigate it, which is all good for the grass, but then they’ll *harvest* it before it even fully matures and then, bizarrely, *throw the harvest away*.
Anyway if you want to get rid of it, there’s assuredly a local primate cultivating it, and you can ask them to stop.
I love it. I have made a point of seeding the lawn with thyme and clover for variety though.
Head over to r/nolawns and they will have great ideas
T Zone herbicide.
Just pour concrete all over the place since you hate plants.
Gundermann