Lawn issues

[mark.wilo13]

Any keen gardeners here? I have these oily leaves that a popping up in patches on my front lawn. I try and pull them out as best I can but they keep coming back in force! Weed killer for lawns has no impact either. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.



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[Stanford]

I know nothing about plants/weeds but it looks a bit like Japanese knotweed - if it is get profession advice asap. There is a GOV site which provides advice
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/prevent-...from-spreading

[Cooper85]

It could be Bindweed but I would have thought the weedkiller would have killed it.

[Man of Kent]

It's not Japanese knotweed. But, I don't know what it is.

[sprite1275]

My lawn is the opposite. I have the odd blade of grass coming up between the weeds.

[smalleyboy1]

Buy a weed killer called Roundup, the concentrate and not the ready mixed liquid. Make it up twice the recommended strength and put it in a small hand sprayer and spot spray the weeds. Read the instructions in relation to pets etc.

If that doesn’t sort it, you have problems.

[Kingstepper]

Buy a weed killer called Roundup, the concentrate and not the ready mixed liquid. Make it up twice the recommended strength and put it in a small hand sprayer and spot spray the weeds. Read the instructions in relation to pets etc.

If that doesn’t sort it, you have problems.

Just wear gloves! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47633086

[David_D]

Buy a weed killer called Roundup, the concentrate and not the ready mixed liquid. Make it up twice the recommended strength and put it in a small hand sprayer and spot spray the weeds. Read the instructions in relation to pets etc.

If that doesn’t sort it, you have problems.

If it’s something growing in the lawn, you might be better to paint a mix of weed killer and washing up liquid on the leaves in the hope of leaving the lawn unmolested. Obviously more difficult if the triffid is prolific.

[bomberman]

Bruise the leaves first before you apply the weed treatment and as mentioned add a little washing up liquid to act a a wetting agent.

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[Kingstepper]

Roundup is available in gel-stick form for just this purpose.

[catch21]

There's a technique called weed-wiping which should work. As said, use gloves, apply weedkiller with a cloth to the weed's leaves.

[hogthrob]

Looks a bit like sorrel:

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=994

[mark.wilo13]

My lawn is the opposite. I have the odd blade of grass coming up between the weeds.

Haha, that made me chuckle.


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[mark.wilo13]

There's a technique called weed-wiping which should work. As said, use gloves, apply weedkiller with a cloth to the weed's leaves.

Thanks for the advise. I will give this a go. Up to this point I had been hesitant to spray loads of weed killer as I didn’t want to kill all the grass also but this seems like a sensible target approach.


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[JGJG]

It's not Japanese knotweed. But, I don't know what it is.

^ this.

The surrounding grass is quite long; once you get into regular cutting the weed may not survive, which might save killing it.

I also find 4 in 1 excellent, since it blows the weeds up out of the ground.

[Hocuspocus]

Could be wild garlic...?

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