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What can I use in our flower bed to kill all flowers and weeds but still allow to me grow grass there? ?

I don't have the time this year to garden and would like to just grow grass in this area. It has a lot of plants comming up from last year and a lot of weeds. One area in another part of the yard had nothing but ferns and I even went as far as pulling them out earlier this season but they are returning fast. Help!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Don't use chemical weed killers as they will pollute the ground and may mean that very little will grow there except weeds. The answer is good old fashioned hard work. Dig the whole bed over thoroughly, and with each forkful you turn over, separate out all the roots and dispose of them. When you've finished you can seed it with your grass seed preparation and keep it watered and permanently moist until the grass starts to grow.

    The best way I have found to put grass seed down is to mix some seed with some topsoil and some very fine sand (silver sand or play sand) in a bucket. Once it is really well mixed together, place a thick layer over the area you want to seed. Wet it slightly and stamp it down hard with your feet. Keep wetting and packing it until it is all firmly in place and then keep it moist until the grass sprouts. The sand helps to stop the birds eating all your seed (they don't like it) and packing it down with seed mixed all through means that even if they eat the seed off the top, it will still grow.

  • lampe
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    there are products you will desire to purchase which will kill the weeds and grass and not harm the flora.preen is an exceptionally stable one ortho additionally places out one referred to as weed begone.yet i additionally don,t like spending funds if i will locate something Else which will artwork'you are able to lay down black plastic in simple terms go away room for the flora there to get water,information paper works additionally yet seems gruesome.the main suitable element to do and could seem stable is to place down weed blocker fabric and canopy it with a awesome mulch, timber chips ect,the up area to the weedblocker it final a protracted tome I even have it my flower beds occurring 4 years and in basic terms a weed or 2 unearths a fashion via it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    U have to pull them out by the root. Then bye some grass seed and sprinkle it. Then water it or do it right before it rains

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