Animal friendly ways of getting rid of the weeds from a lawn?

[ts_guest]

First mow the lawn on your lowest setting. Knocking down the weeds low. Then put several layers of newspaper -- or cardboard down on your grass, before you put down mulch.

Dampen the newspapers or cardboard. Weeds cannot grow through the newspaper, and the decomposing paper feeds your soil. The mulch gets incorporated into the soil, after the weeds are dead. Mulch enriches the soil. Disclaimer: I have never used newspaper, but I've heard it works very well.

 

[arthnel]

Oooooooooh....

Now I understand the idea. Thank you very sir. Highly appreciated information, right there. Keep the ideas coming as you're a very big help. Thanks.

 

[ts_guest]

You're so welcome. But, I am not a sir. Female here. Common mistake because my first name is usually a boy's name, or a dog.

 

[Corzhens]

I actually have no suggestions on how to kill weeds. What we do here with our small lawn is to get someone to pull out the unwanted plants, be it clover or anything. Our frog grass used to be prolific but when other plants came in, particularly the herb called Pansit-pansitan which is like lentils, the frog grass seemingly became shy. So during the rainy season, we remove by hand the unwanted plants.

 

[KimmyMarkks]

Does anyone know of any organic weed killers? I'm not sure if they exist but I overheard some coworkers mentioning it.

 

[ts_guest]

KimmyMarkks, other than what talked about in this thread, you can peruse the list on Google results page: https://www.google.com/search?q=organic+weed+killers&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Some listed on Google are homemade do it yourself, and some are products you can purchase.

 

[Radish Geek]

I read on an herbalism site that rosemary kills a lot of things around it. You might wind up eating a lot of fish, chicken, and potatoes, though. ;-)