{"id":166,"date":"2016-06-24T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/?p=166"},"modified":"2016-06-24T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:45:30","slug":"liverworts-as-weeds-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/liverworts-as-weeds-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverworts As Weeds In The Garden."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/index.html\">Question<\/a><br \/>\nPlease could you advise me on how to kill liverwort? I have it in my lawn and borders.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/index.html\">Answer<\/a><br \/>\nIn the garden borders the soil pH should be kept close to neutral (pH 7) which is suitable for most plants other than rhododendrons and similar lime-haters.Borders and other cultivated areas should be well stocked with plants and regularly hoed and raked in order to maintain a rough and well-drained surface.Where soil compacts readily after rain the organic content of the soil can be improved by digging in or mulching with coarser materials such as well-rotted farmyard manure,garden compost or composted bark. <br \/>\nIn this case it is likely that the lawn is badly compacted and unless this problem is addressed with spiking or hollow coring the liverwort will simply re-grow. Temporary control, however,can be achieved by applying the ready-to-use formulation of dichlorophen.For More information:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/index.html\"> click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question Please could you advise me on how to kill liverwort? I have it in my lawn and borders. Answer In the garden borders the soil pH should be kept close to neutral (pH&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}