Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: mrs bouquet on May 29, 2016, 17:21
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My very small patch has got tough spikey bits in it, they are laying flat and about 4 inches long. I am cutting in one direction (which I know is wrong) because its an oblong shape.
My mower is a small rotary one.
Have you any advice on what I am doing wrong and how to get rid, and back to my old lovely little lawn. This is a new mower, my last one was a cylinder type and I didn't seem to have the problem, is this just a co-incidence.
Regards, Mrs Bouquet
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Why not just drag a rake across them in the opposite direction to which they lie to make them stand up vertically and then use the lawnmower?
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I get that with dandilions they know when im mowing and lie down .
chrissie b
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Do they look like a slightly coarser grass variety?
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Yes they are course, and the stem are round, not flat like a blade of grass ! I am just going to mow now and I am going rake it all first, and push the mower back and forward instead of just walking along in a straight line -
I suppose it can't halm it. Watch this space, lol, regards Mrs Bouquet
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Its me again, now I have raked and cut it. The problem seems to be that the long tough bits, are growing out from a nasty little central piece and just laying flat, the lumps can be pulled out, but if I do that there will be no lawn left - Now there's an idea !!! regards, Mrs Bouquet