My garden has slowly turned into a wild garden with more weeds than grass. The weeds were flowering yellow before I cut last week (I now wish I had taken a photo!). Its small - 7x4 metres.
Is there anyone out there who can advise me how I can turn it back into a grass lawn - it doesn't have to be perfect just no so much of a weed/cabbage patch :)
I have no gardening maintenance but am keen...do I need to dig it all up and re-sow it? Or can I dig up the weeds and put seed down?
Start with a soil test - that looks like it's "not growing grass because it's not remotely suitable for grass at present" - I'm guessing very acid based on the plant types, but it will probably need more than lime (or wood ashes) as there are likely other issues with soil health here.
Seed is not going to fix this without fixing the soil first.
Depending on "what you really want" there are other short green groundcovers that may be easier to provide for than grass. Duch White Clover is a small/low-growing clover which will help to fix some nitrogen. Thyme or chamomile make "short green plants that smell good and cover the gorund" but are not grass - if your plot is acid and heavily shaded, removing other things and encouraging the moss (or different types of moss, there's quite a variety) may be your best approach.
Presumably some of your yellow flowers were dandelions, since there is a dandelion seed-head showing in the last picture.
