lawn and garden being taken over!

Can anyone help?? my lawn and garden seem to be under attack from a small plant........ dont know what it is...only that it's growing VERY quickly starts as small green leaves poking out, then grows small and kinda of wiry.....how do i get rid of it! theres too much to pick out by hand!

 

PS can email a picture of what it looks like........dont know how to upload here

 

Hi e17ab,

Feel free to email the pics to me and I'll take a look and see if I can identify it. Unfortunately, if you can't remove it by hand, the only other real alternative is a chemical - but if you get the timing right, it needn't be the end of the world

 

Thanks for the pics e17ab.

It looks to me as though this is Baby's Tears, also known as Angels Tears or Mind Your Own Business (Latin Soleirolia soleirolii) - if you run a google images search for that, you'll probably find a few more pictures to compare yours to.

A broad leaf selective weed killer should get rid of this if you can't pick it out by hand, but you'll need to keep well away from your herbs because it will take them out as well. I'd suggest hand weeding the herb areas.