Overgrown Garden Project

Untangle the bindweed from the bushes (assuming you want to keep them) and spray the bindweed with more Roundup/Glyphosate (keeping it off the bushes - if you want to keep them - did I say that already?!!)

 

The war has begun - in a sense, because I really don't care about collateral damage (whatever dies, dies), I feel I have a good chance of winning. The bindweed SHALL die. I have been using the cheaper glyphosate mix (apart from buying the sprayer the first time), and it has indeed saved me a fortune and it's slightly stronger to boot.

I will try to take a photo tomorrow to show progress. It is almost all dead now, I just have to figure out the best way to clear it. There's a lot of dead grass and weeds lying everywhere now, and I feel my shears and rake won't make it easy for me.

Like a previous poster said, I know it might be frowned upon in a gardening forum, but after visiting a friend's house who has done a really nice job with the stuff, I am giving artificial lawn some serious thought. It is about twice the price as, say, getting Greenthumb to plant the lawn, but the thought of never having to cut grass ever is very appealing. While obviously not quite as nice as well-maintained, super high-quality lawn grass, it was certainly soft enough to lie down on, and looked pretty realistic from a distance.

 

For a few months of my life, I lived and worked in rural Hampshire. Work was in the middle of nowhere, and the only place to go for lunch (unless you took a pack-up) was a lovely country pub half a mile away. I'd been there loads of times before I started to wonder how come the lawn always looked nice despite the fact I'd never seen any sign of anyone maintaining it. One day I realised, and careful scrutiny what the situation was. A few weeks after I'd realised, I was in there when an old couple came in. I could see them having a hushed argument near the bar along the lines of 'you ask, no you ask', then eventually the old lady asked at the bar, "excuse me young man, would you mind telling me how you always keep the lawn looking so nice, despite so much foot traffic? "Its fake" came the answer. It was exceptionally believable. It even felt like real grass underfoot. It even had irregularities in colour and texture like a real lawn does. You literally had to feel it between finger and thumb to tell it was fake.