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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, help me out.  I generally agree with you and have never used fertilizer or weed control products -- but I bought some for the first time this year.  Mowing simply does not get the spiky weeds or dandelions, as they just press down under the mower and stay put.  I hand weed but it's an enormous amount of work and I can't keep up, especially if it rains every weekend as it so often does (can't mow in the rain either).

A couple years ago I bought a house with a pretty nice lawn.  I did manual weeding and otherwise left it alone.  Two years later it has been overrun with all kinds of weeds - they are not only ugly but not nice to walk on or play on.  So what is the solution?

I grew up in a drought area and understand native plant gardens, but (a) that's not a playspace for kids and (b) weeding decorative planting beds or rock areas is even harder than weeding the lawn.[/quote]
1. Horticultural vinegar
2. Add clover (I know it’s a cliche on here, but clover is a nitrogen fixing legume and you will make your soil healthier which means weeds are less likely)
3. Fill those flower beds all the way up with plants; weeds don’t grow where they don’t get light. Piet Oudolf gardens. Meadow gardens, meadow lawns. You can leave part of the lawn in traditional turf or make it all clover (but then you have to get rid of all the grass by smothering it or turning the soil over, so that’s a pain).
4. For the spring weed of your bed, get in there early and use a stirrup hoe. [/quote]

+1. Violets, calico aster, lance-leaf coreopsis, and self-heal are also recommended for lawns and are native which you have to watch which clover you add. We had clover added to our lawn as a bird gift and it is so much softer than grass so we're keeping the clover, added the flowers I mentioned above and using a native fescue grass for our official 'lawn' area. We enjoy the blooms so much.

If someone hates weeding, a ground cover to prevent weeds like wild ginger is really great. It also reduces the need for watering. [/quote]

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