My lawn is covered in tall growing, light blue flowers, tough grass and dandelions. Is there any hope for it, or do I have to tear it all up? Please help!
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It depends on what you want. Personally, I like the natural looking lawn. One of our neighbors fertilizes, sprays and just generally chemicals their lawn to death--if they ever stopped nothing would grow because the soil is dead. There are green ways to remove unwanted weeds and crab grass from your lawn, and I'd encourage you to go that way rather than use weed and grass killers which harm the environment, and the soil. Try googling natural lawn care for starters. Good luck!
If the blue flower blooms in early spring, enjoy it! It may be a Star of Bethlehem, which can be mowed down after blooming and will multiply by bulb.
My own feeling is that I would mow around the edges for a neat border, but then let a prairie take over inside the square, and put native wildflower seeds in. Your county extension agent will tell you how to get in touch with people selling native species. What could be more easy-care and lovely than swaying grasses and flowers?
Depends on the weeds. Take samples to a local garden center and ask them to help you identify. Then take them to one more garden center and see what they say, just to make sure they agree. If you have weeds that come back from seed each year, you can pull as many as possible and over seed the area now. Fall is the best time to plant new grass seed as it's not competing with a lot of other seeds. Once the new grass is established, the weed seeds will not have as much space next spring. I personally live somewhere between the "use the chemicals" "don't use the chemicals" ideas.
Thanks for the advice, everyone! We're pretty "green" here and the idea of using a lot of chemicals doesn't appeal to me. I'll try some of those ideas!
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