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[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]

I used herbicides for years and still the weeds, particularly dandelions, became more pervasive. You have to use much more than recommended amounts to keep the weeds down. I so regrest the amount of chemicals I dumped in my yard. Maintaining grass is such a toxic activity. Most people don't realize what it does and it's affect upon polinators. [/quote]

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