Anyone know what these weeds are and how to kill them?

[PaulSB]

@mudsticks and @tom73 are right, it's clover. The white form is the more common but it's not unusual to have the pinky one.

Personally I like it and as soon as the clover begins to flower I stop cutting that area of the lawn. It is a very valuable food source for bees.

Clover takes the nitrogen it needs from the air and can be an indicator of a lawn in poor condition. If you must control it can I suggest you go for the more friendly approach - cut the grass short to prevent seed heads forming and fertilise the lawn to encourage grass growth to crowd out the clover.

If you want chemical control use a broadleaf weedkiller which contains fluroxypyr - this will be listed as the active ingredient. Once you've killed the clover you'll have bare patches which will need gently cultivating, over sow with grass seed and keep the whole lawn well fed.

Living with it or the friendly option are the better choices.

 

[Edwardoka]

I don't understand the fixation with pristine monoculture lawns. They're green wastelands.
Give me a wild meadow any day of the week.

Oddly enough the neighbours don't agree.

 

[mudsticks]

I don't understand the fixation with pristine monoculture lawns. They're green wastelands.
Give me a wild meadow any day of the week.

Oddly enough the neighbours don't agree.

It's the usual, command and control, chemical warfare approach.

It's far more profitable for chemical companies, than our laissez faire

"Oh aren't the wild flowers pretty, and isn't nature a marvel?" attitude.

Sadly its also really bad for wildlife

I sometimes wonder how many people who buy all these nature zapping chemicals, also have an rspb sticker in their car window ??

 

[welsh dragon]

We tend to only cut paths into the field in the springtime . We get to keep all the wildflowers that way. After the flowers have all died, then we cut all the grass.

 

[Dave7]

Decision made I have bought a BIG flame thrower to nuke them.......we are going to live with them until the lawn needs mowing.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Decision made I have bought a BIG flame thrower to nuke them.......we are going to live with them until the lawn needs mowing.

They could tell you were weak and would bend to their will. Man up and get the Napalm out.

 

[mudsticks]

They could tell you were weak and would bend to their will. Man up and get the Napalm out.

Or act like a gentleman, and give nature her due space

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Or act like a gentleman, and give nature her due space

 

[pawl]

I don't understand the fixation with pristine monoculture lawns. They're green wastelands.
Give me a wild meadow any day of the week.

Oddly enough the neighbours don't agree.

You should the lawn across from me it it’s that artificial grass .As her next door neighbour a very refined older lady well that’s b…~|§ ed the hedgehogs up.They spend half the time moaning to all and sundry about the amount of leaves that litter the lawn