Re: converting lawn
- Subject: Re: converting lawn
- From: R* G*
- Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 13:09:40 -0700
You may want to continue covering the lawn patch by patch for now, but refrain
from planting until fall, if you keep it watered most of the weeds will die for
lack of sunlight and your yarrow won't have much competition when planting time
comes around. I am using a variation of this to kill my front lawn, a 1 foot
deep layer of mulch (nothing fancy, just the stuff the local tree service was
going to take to the landfill) over the entire area, I have a bermudagrass lawn
which is most likely tougher than any weed you will fight in your lawn.
Any other ideas?
barbara sargent wrote:
> I have a small patch of lawn - about 8X17 feet. I've been slowly sticking
> in white achillea which I would like to take over the entire patch. The
> achillea has spread very nicely along the edges which are tight against
> wood borders but most of the lawn is still grass (weed grass and other),
> dandelions and other weeds. I almost never water it in the summer so there
> are brown patches.
>
> Part of the lawn is shaded by the apple tree and there it is greener but
> most of the grass is ordinary weedy stuff and the achillea is alive but not
> spreading as well in the shady places.
>
> Do you think I can continue doing it patch by patch (compost, newspaper and
> mulch)? Or would it be better to do that to the entire strip all at once?
> Or, any other ideas?
>
> Thanks--Barbara, in Berkeley where it doesn't rain from spring until late
> autumn.
