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If it's a large lawn, use a knapsack sprayer and also canes to mark out metre wide strips so you can spray methodically. …

As long as the ground isn't so wet that you will churn it up or damage it, if the grass is long then by all means start cutting your grass. Here in Essex, I today cut the grass at my one remaining gar …

Then I'd break up the clods with a fork or hand cultivator and then rake the soil so it uniformly slopes from the bottom of the lawn edge into the border. … Trim the lawn edges with the trimmer every time you cut the grass. …

You could just let nature take its course and wait for wild flowers colonise the lawn by themselves (some people - not me - call them weeds). … You could plant wildflowers into the lawn after its established. You could forget about turfing and sow a wildflower meadow. Think about how you are going to maintain the lawn. …

Possibly ground-ivy, Latin name Glechoma hederacea. The Wikipedia page is here.

I live in the UK, so this may not apply to your location. The easiest option is to keep your grass but think about cutting different areas at different frequencies. For example, you could have three r …

Otherwise, you might just have to accept that with those beautiful trees you aren't going to get a lush green lawn. Maybe mentally relabel your lawn as a woodland glade rather than a lawn :-) …

That is an impressive tuber! From an online search it looks like Guilleminea densa (Small Matweed). See here and here, for example.

So, in a nutshell, my advice is to ignore weeds and moss; cut the lawn regularly but no lower than 25mm; don't water - ever. … You might also want to consider maintaining part of your lawn as a wildflower meadow (you can then plant attractive groups of spring bulbs), maybe crossed with meandering mown paths. …

I'm no expert but growing a lawn two inches over a membrane definitely doesn't sound a good idea. The membrane will prevent the grass roots growing down into the underlying soil. … That means the lawn will be susceptible to drying out during dry spells. Turf grass is amazingly resilient stuff, but you do need to let the roots go down as far as they want to. …

Otherwise, wait until the lawn is established then treat with a selective turf weedkiller, ie something that kills broad-leaved weeds but not grass. Follow the instructions to the letter. …

Another philosopy to consider is that one person's weedy lawn is another person's wildflower meadow. … Instead of expending money, effort and chemicals on getting rid of "weeds", regard the "weeds" as wild flowers and manage your lawn as a meadow. …

Use a hard-wearing grass seed mixture suitable for a family lawn. Scatter the seed, lightly rake in then gently firm down the soil. …

A few years ago I had to maintain the rather scrappy gardens of a run down block of flats in east London (annual rainfall - about 600mm). There was a large patch of bare ground that used to attract we …

You will need to cultivate and prepare the ground if you use seed or turf to make a new lawn. The pros and cons of seed and turf are discussed here and here. …