I have zero inclination to do any of it myself!
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I’ve tried to do without chemicals in our outdoors bits, but there’s a total of 4 acres, and mowing has little long-term effect on stuff like nettles, thistles, docks, hemlock, ground-elder etc. I’ve no desire for a pedantically grass-only bowling green, but I need a selective herbicide that will let grasses flourish and hold the rest at bay: any recommendations for specific products I can either spray, or perhaps broadcast?
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Also - WTF is going on with the fucking Cleavers/Goosegrass this year - jesus christ on a bike there is SO fucking much and it’s coming-up EVERYWHERE!!! GAH!
I’ll swap you for my Mares tail 
Improve soil drainage - mares-tail all gone.
Or wait ~300 million years and mine your own coal 
We have the sandiest, most free draining soil I have ever seen 
My veg patch was wholly covered in that stuff. I was able to roll it up like a sticky carpet.
Something like this will work, I used similar when I kept the sheep
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Nice one Mick 
Will it kill Mares tail?
Don’t think so. Probably better with a Glysophate based weed killer and spot treat. Mix it with a thickener like wallpaper plaster crush then leaves and paint it on. A proper ball ache as it will probably need multiple application.
I’ve never had to deal with it, but that’s what I’d try.
Thanks Mick, we’ve tried everything.
It’s a great early crop space, wise for nothing. Sits in the ground over winter when nothing else is growing and doesn’t get eaten by the cabbage white butterfly. Early sprouting broccoli on the other half of the bed.
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Asked several of the builders about it and inadvertently set off a bit of a competition.
Angle grinder? Crowbar? Came down this morning to find one of them drilling them out. Now gone.
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now expect 100s of pigeons shitting down your white wall