We've just got our first house and with it came a lot of new challenges in the shape of gardening.
One issue I have not managed to solve is weeds in our lawn.
I have been ripping these things out of the lawn a lot (see pic in post) but I feel like I can't win. There are big patches where you can hardly see the grass.
I know not everyone want the perfect grassy lawn, and I don't need perfection. But these things are growing and spreading at an alarming rate. I need to do something about them.
Where we are at now, I feel like we are past the point of ripping them up one by one. We need some wider, more effective solution.
What are these and how do I fight them in scale?
Extra pic:
Mowing several times a week and keeping the grass short helps against most weeds. Mowing stimulates the grass to spread out / grow horizontally. On the other hand, your grass isn’t growing a lot now; as the heat has turned it yellow but you should still mow to keep the weed in check. I’m following a different approach myself: I have replaced most of the lawn with flowers that are suited for insects; lawns are useless from an ecological viewpoint - but that wasn’t your question.