Scotts crabgrass killer, then 4 weeks later weed & feed.

First year I've done this, but I'm certainly seeing tons of dead dandilions! I believe this needs to be done for a few years in a row in the spring. In the late fall, that is when I spread the grass seed. Summer sun is too harsh for fresh seeding.

In the meantime....hand pulling in the flower beds.

I don't.

Mow what grows. Monocultures are unnatural and non self sustaining. Poison isn't happening around me.

Same here, my grass is an eclectic mix of many weeds. I'd love for it to be solid perennials someday soon, grass is overrated.

In the spring, I spend a lot of time pulling and then they are easy to maintain over the summer. Good exercise and no poison added to the environment. Our city is no longer spraying but are also not cutting the grass in many areas, leaving it more natural looking (and saving tax dollars).

Sounds like my lawn care program, @Revolutionary Gardens; except I cut it to 3" and usually let it self-mulch. I love the clover, as it provides a food source for honey bees. Birds also seem to find enough to eat and this year we had a rabbit nest in our garden, which is mainly strawberries and black berries.

I don't like the buckhorns and this other light green lacy stuff, though.

yep, the bees and other pollinators love it, it's always green - even in August - and it keeps this little girl safe

@Bungalomo-Sorry I didn't read your post first.

We had the lawn at our first house hydro-seeded by my wife's cousin, as he was in to that at the time. After the grass was established, I decided I would "do what Dad used to do" and fertilized with a weed and feed product. It should have been named "Feed the Weeds" because that's what it did. I have never fertilized or applied any chemicals to either of my yards since.

We don't control our weeds. We have pasture grass. The deer are always on our property and they eat pretty much whatever they want.

Roundup pro. works great!

Landscaper cloth in between plants; lawn and shrub, etc., maintenance company; and, my fav. for new flower beds, layers of newspaper right over grass, sone dirt, then mulch, then water it. Dig holes through paper to plant new perennial.

We live in the country on 26 acres, so weeds are no big deal. They get mowed and disappear. Spot treating any huge nuisance areas. The only place I don't want weeds in is the flower beds, using landscaper cloth, mulch, and pulling by hand any stragglers that creep in.

We only try (TRY) to control the weeds that pop up between pavers and other hardscape. I pour hot white vinegar on them, they are gone in a day.

I don't do poisons... so I mow.. and in the flower beds I use card board.... it smothers the weeks and it degrades into the soil..

We pull them by hand, and we have bark in all our beds, it helps keep the weeks under control. I don't like using poison. We only have a third of an acre, so it's not that big of deal to pull them. For weeds in the hardscape, we may spray, or sometimes I just pour boiling water over them.

by hand...my garden is large and it's a pain to clean in the first few years until the plants get larger..For the lawn, I have dandelions and clover, but I'm fine with them. Bees love them. No poison used anywhere,,organic gardening all the way

Our yard is a real pain.. they grow back so fast.

The fastest weed killer out of all of them is the soap, vinegar and salt solution, "Pinterest" weed killer. You will see results within 2-6 hours. The problem with this option is the fact that most all plants will grow back. Even from roots so whatever part of the plants not directly touched by solution will grow again. Dumping a gallon will do the trick but the soil ph will change to something like the great salt lake so good luck trying to grow anything.

The best commercial plant killer is roundup . It smells chemically and has warnings all over but the active ingredient is "glysophate". Which is...... ... Isopropyl salt compounds. It's basically engineered salt extended release with a vehicle to drive it around inside the plants.

http://www.roundup.com/smg/goprod/roundup-ready-to-use-weed-grass-killer-iii-with-sure-shot-wand/prod11330002

Check yourself. It takes weeks sometimes. You may be unsatisfied if you need weeds gone ASAP because it's like a slow disease. By the way, I'm not in the weed killer business, I've just had lots of weeds to deal with, lol.





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"In case you missed it: the international scientific community sent us two very loud wake-up calls last month. First, the UN World Health Organization’s prestigious International Agency for Research on Cancer released a consensus report that glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, is a “probable carcinogen.” A few days later, a team of international scientists based in New Zealand reported that widely available commercial formulations of RoundUp, 2,4-D and dicamba can lead to the development of antibiotic resistance in common disease-causing bacteria.

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Holland was the first country in Europe to ban the use of RoundUp. France will soon follow but many regions have already dropped the use it.

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I don't use chemicals either, except for poison ivy, which is the only time I use Round-up.

I pull them as soon as I see them while they are tiny. I weed whenever I go outside or return home. It only takes a few seconds.

it depends on the size of the garden as well:) I can't wait for my plants to mature..another 2-3 years..by the time I finish, I have to start from the beginning..at least in Spring

I'm interested in the people who said goats haha

Toronto no longer permits chemical weed killers. We've reduced the amount of lawn by increasing the size of our beds and mulched pathways. Some areas are now ground cover, which takes some time to establish but is lower-maintenance overall.

We weed the fairly small remaining lawns by hand. Our front lawn patch has always been thin and weedy because it is sloped and shady. It has benefited greatly from the addition of mini clover 2 years ago. Other regular clover has also now joined in, which we don't mind. The bees love it.

I'm a big fan of fabric mat with mulch, bark or rock/stone over it in landscaped portions of your yard. It lets the water go down, but keeps weeds at bay.

Mostly they are pulled by hand with a few exceptions. I have hired somebody to do this.

I have tried many layers of newspaper without much in the way of results. Where I live farming is prevalent and a lot of weeds are herbicide-resistant. With the landscaping cloth, after a couple of years the weeds have come through and are a mess to cut out. My next effort is going to be a propane torch designed for weed control. Obviously, much care will have to be taken using a flammable product.

So far, my husband, who does our yard work, has not done anything about the weeds. We moved into our house almost a year ago and he really needs to take care of the weeds this year!

I learned this from our local hardware store. 1 Gallon Vinegar + 1 Cup Salt + 1 Tbsp dish salt. Spray or drench the weed area with this. It worked for me. Your yard will smell vinegar for a while but it really does work!

Last year I did a side by side test of weedkiller solutions, two RoundUp formulations vs the Pinterest fav of vinegar, soap, and epsom salts. Bottom line, you're comparing apples and oranges. Glyphosate (the active ingredient in RoundUp) is a systemic. It's absorbed through foliar contact and kills the whole plant. Vinegar is just a contact herbicide. It burns the crap out of the leaves (quite impressively I might add) but the weeds come back within a week or two. It takes a lot more applications of the vinegar solution to achieve anything like glyphosate.

That said, if you want to avoid glyphosate your best options are always going to be mechanical - pulling the weeds out. For weeds in sidewalk cracks like shown above, boiling water works. It causes the cell walls of the plant to rupture, killing the weed.

Ot if you like fire,there's always the weed torch!

I let my dog out into the yard. He only kills vegetation in about a four inch diameter each time, but we're both happy with that.

You mean you can control them?

In the yard, we just mow once a week. The weeds look close enough to the grass for it not to be a problem. In the flower beds and garden, since we have little kids and little free time, we mostly just ignore them!

forbs, not weeds! they are excellent nutrients, especially the legumes (clover). We graze our flock of sheep through the lawn twice a year. Once in Spring and again in the Fall. They get it very tidy for us ...around the rock outcroppings and trees. In-between the sheep visits i'll occasionally let horses graze it down for us.

For my grass area I agree will many of you. Let it all grow and mow everything. It is all green. For planting beds I pull out all weeds and then sprinkle a product that prevents the seeds from germinating. My beds stay weed free for years.

I read that some people use Round-Up on poison ivy. I just want to caution that, if you burn poison ivy, even when it is dead, it can put off fumes. Breathing the fumes can give you the rash in your mouth and throat. So don't burn it, dead or alive. Wear protective clothing, including gloves and a mask, when clearing out poison ivy. Pack in trash bags and secure well. Some areas have people that will come out (for pay, of course) and clear your poison ivy. I have also used Round-Up on it; although am reconsidering that now.

I live in a very small town that has what I call "yard police". I realize it's bad to have terrible piles of weeds, etc., in your yard, especially if it is visible from the street. But we can't even let our grass get 4 inches tall which eliminates naturalizing daffodils throughout the yard. There is a narrow view of what is considered acceptable.

Deep watering and frequent mowing creates healthy grass that chokes out the weeds. I get lots off compliments about my grass and questions about how much I fertilize. I have never fertilized, just water, frequent mowing and dig the occasional dandelion by hand.

In some places, recent weather stories notwithstanding, xeriscaping seems to be the only reasonable landscaping.

That font was not intentional. I just liked it and left it.

We use a blow torch

Banana peels/skins help promote a healthier garden and brother in law swears by the method that it prevents weeds too. They also keep some insects at bay.