For some they are a joy, for others an eternal sorrow - daisies on the lawn. If you want to destroy this weed in your garden, you have various methods available.
You can simply eat daisies instead of fighting them chemically
For a few daisies on your lawn, you don't need to use a chemical baton. Here it is enough to weed the plants. It is best to do this before flowering so that the daisies do not self-seed. In wet weather, cutting out the roots is particularly easy. Use a dandelion cutter, it will make your job easier.
You can remove daisies from lawns with a special lawn fertilizer mixed with weed killer. In addition to daisies, you will also destroy other wild herbs and encourage your lawn to grow densely. Only apply these agents when there are no children or pets playing on the area.
Do you even have to remove daisies?
Even if you have a lot of daisies in your garden, you don't necessarily have to fight them. Instead, you can use the plants for your health or in the kitchen. You might also find friends or neighbors who would appreciate a few daisies. Then you dig up some plants, put them in a pot and give them away.
The benefit of the daisy
Not only rabbits and other grass-eating animals like daisies, many people also refine their salads or soups with this slightly nutty-tasting wild herb. You can also do something good for your health with it. Drink daisy tea in spring, it has a draining and blood-cleansing effect. Poultices with daisies relieve rashes and have a healing effect on wounds.
Process the blossoms of your daisies into blossom butter or decorative ice cubes. In this way you also prevent the further spread of these plants in your garden, because they can no longer seed themselves.
The essentials in brief:
- effective and harmless: cut out plants
- Weed killers only on unused areas
- double benefit: eat daisies
tips and tricks
The ecologically most sensible way to destroy daisies is to use the plants. Use daisies in cooking, for medicinal purposes, or feed the plants to your rabbits.