Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: How to get rid of lawn effortlessly 6Oct 13, 2009 8:47 pm Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: How to get rid of lawn effortlessly 9Oct 14, 2009 8:49 pm Blog http://wherethehearthis.blogspot.com/ Build https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=6634: Yard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27687&p=378401#p378401 Re: How to get rid of lawn effortlessly 16Oct 17, 2009 8:28 am Sorry me again Quote: Using round up this time of year to kill a lawn, well it might not work too well in the long term. I thought that I understood that when couch brakes dormancy it is the best time to do it I was thinking of spraying it with glyphosphate however many times it takes, Fusilade is not an option, the patch is just 4m/7m with a tree in the middle. When it is dead I thought I would cover the lot with newsprint and again cover it with green mulch and wait for autumn to do the recommended planting of grevillieas, chorisemas or whatever I choose. Is this approach OK or am I missing something. Maggie Re: How to get rid of lawn effortlessly 17Oct 17, 2009 11:22 pm Grasshopper, I'm loving your knowledge I spoke with the manufacturer years ago about why it wasn't available in smaller quantities for retail sale. The answer I was given was much different to that, but it did match what I was taught in chemical handling about it so I never questioned it. "we don't want chemicals like that in peoples back sheds" is from memory what I was told. should have been, "we don't want to pay label rego so chemicals like that are in peoples sheds" the leaves that are now underground go yellow, the tips that poke through photosynthesise and have chlorophyll, same reason they grow rhubarb in the dark. 5 4891 Depends how much direct sun it gets. Is there any shading (eaves or trees)? If the sun hits a window directly it doesn't matter too much if it's double or single… 1 12671 9 24816 |