That’s a lot of weeds. Have you any grass growing in it or are you looking to reseed it?
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Hard to tell, but I think that it’s a dock. If you rotovate it, you’ll just break the roots into small pieces and spread them.
Get a garden fork and fork them out carefully without breaking the roots. After a rainy spell is good, so the ground is soft.
On big plants dock roots can be very long, think elongated parsnip. But forking them out will deal with them.
ooohhhhhh9
Keep going with your grass seed and cut it when long enough. The big stalky stuff will mostly die off.
stevenwalsh21
I’ve got loads of those dock plants as well, a real pain to get out. You have to remove the whole root or they’ll regrow.
I find i can pull most of them out by hand if the ground is wet enough, you just need to bend them around in a circle to loosen them and then carefully yank them up. If that doesn’t work fork and trowel to get them up
mongo_ie
Nabbed from the RHS website.
>Try digging isolated specimens out as only the top few inches of rootstock have powers of regeneration and if 12-15cm (5-6in) can be removed, usually there is no regrowth. Docks are especially vulnerable in spring so digging out at this time should be more effective.
I found a two pronged hand weeder great for thinning out hundreds of Ragworth seedlings in the lawn. One of the longer handled versions might be a lot easier for tackling these mature docks. I found the garden fork hard work for spot weeding like this.
TheStoicNihilist
That’s a type of dock, curly dock maybe. It will come back with a vengeance if you leave it like that. Dig out any that you find, it might take a year or two to get rid of it. It’s best if you can pull them cleanly from wet ground so plan for a bit of that in the spring.
Expert-Fig-5590
I don’t think it’s a dock. It looks like redshank stalks to me. Once you have cut them they will die over the winter. You might need to reseed spots of the lawn next spring.
Njallgold
Did it resemble Bamboo before you cut it?
And is it hollow, lush, easily broken but with a semi hard shell on the stalk?
It could be Japanese Knotweed.
If it is it spreads like wildfire and takes over Everything.
A small sliver on your sole and you walk somewhere else, it’ll root and flourish.
It grows 12ft tall and runs feeders along the ground and can go to 3 metres deep!
I had it at 14ft tall and all else I described!
Took 3 years employing experienced contractors to get rid. Your spray in Sept, let it there, spray in spring when general growth starts, leave it, spray again in September, leave it and repeat till gone
It’s lethal, call a gardener to verify, hopefully it’s not but well worth calling someone in.
As said, a sliver of it tracked elsewhere on a boot and it’s digging in immediately…you think you have it beaten, it takes off elsewhere with a vengeance
It jumps around at will, the most nuts plant I’ve ever seen
stalkthewizard
Just mow it short twice a week. Grind it down.
_Druss_
Weed killer an option or do we not talk about them here?
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That’s a lot of weeds. Have you any grass growing in it or are you looking to reseed it?
Hard to tell, but I think that it’s a dock. If you rotovate it, you’ll just break the roots into small pieces and spread them.
Get a garden fork and fork them out carefully without breaking the roots. After a rainy spell is good, so the ground is soft.
On big plants dock roots can be very long, think elongated parsnip. But forking them out will deal with them.
Keep going with your grass seed and cut it when long enough. The big stalky stuff will mostly die off.
I’ve got loads of those dock plants as well, a real pain to get out. You have to remove the whole root or they’ll regrow.
I find i can pull most of them out by hand if the ground is wet enough, you just need to bend them around in a circle to loosen them and then carefully yank them up. If that doesn’t work fork and trowel to get them up
Nabbed from the RHS website.
>Try digging isolated specimens out as only the top few inches of rootstock have powers of regeneration and if 12-15cm (5-6in) can be removed, usually there is no regrowth. Docks are especially vulnerable in spring so digging out at this time should be more effective.
I found a two pronged hand weeder great for thinning out hundreds of Ragworth seedlings in the lawn. One of the longer handled versions might be a lot easier for tackling these mature docks. I found the garden fork hard work for spot weeding like this.
That’s a type of dock, curly dock maybe. It will come back with a vengeance if you leave it like that. Dig out any that you find, it might take a year or two to get rid of it. It’s best if you can pull them cleanly from wet ground so plan for a bit of that in the spring.
I don’t think it’s a dock. It looks like redshank stalks to me. Once you have cut them they will die over the winter. You might need to reseed spots of the lawn next spring.
Did it resemble Bamboo before you cut it?
And is it hollow, lush, easily broken but with a semi hard shell on the stalk?
It could be Japanese Knotweed.
If it is it spreads like wildfire and takes over Everything.
A small sliver on your sole and you walk somewhere else, it’ll root and flourish.
It grows 12ft tall and runs feeders along the ground and can go to 3 metres deep!
I had it at 14ft tall and all else I described!
Took 3 years employing experienced contractors to get rid. Your spray in Sept, let it there, spray in spring when general growth starts, leave it, spray again in September, leave it and repeat till gone
It’s lethal, call a gardener to verify, hopefully it’s not but well worth calling someone in.
As said, a sliver of it tracked elsewhere on a boot and it’s digging in immediately…you think you have it beaten, it takes off elsewhere with a vengeance
It jumps around at will, the most nuts plant I’ve ever seen
Just mow it short twice a week. Grind it down.
Weed killer an option or do we not talk about them here?