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aJumpedUpPantryBoy · 18/04/2010 23:25

Which weeds are you battling against in your garden or on your allotment?

In my garden I have a huge problem with buttercups. I have dug up wheelbarrow loads today - I wouldnt mind if they were in the lawn, but the are all over the flowerbeds.

I also have one flower bed with a bindweed problem.

The worst thing is the dreaded japansese knot weed. Whe we moved in there were two patches and for the past three years we have blitzed them but today I noticed three shoots.
DH has painted them wth weedkiller (I try and be organic, but with JK we bring out the chemicals) and we are now on knotweed-watch.
The ony consolation I have is that the new shoots were very small and weedy, so hopefully we are beating the bloody stuff.

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thisisyesterday · 18/04/2010 23:29

we used to have bindweed in the back garden but i seem to have overcome it just by continually pulling up as much as I can. we'll see though, it might be planning an attack again now it's spring!

my worst enemy right now though is next door's bloody bamboo it is coming up all over my lawn, and i just don't have the time or energy to dig the entire lot up

buttercups, daisies and dandelions I LOVE so they're all allowed to stay

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isthatporridgeinyourzone · 19/04/2010 10:30

Grounder elder. Aaargh. That can never be "a plant in the wrong place".

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aJumpedUpPantryBoy · 19/04/2010 17:56

Ohhh - I have ground elder too. Horrid stuff - it spreads like wildfire.
The first year I moved into this house I assumed it was a proper plant and carefully weeded around ut of course, because I let it run wild for a year there is now loads of it.

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ShellingPeas · 19/04/2010 19:36

These bloody things - some time ago we did some landscaping in the autumn after clearing the garden of 12 years growth of brambles, bindweed, ground elder and other nasties only to find that the celandines were dormant and invisible so were missed. They have now come up everywhere. In the lawn, in the borders, just everywhere. I hate them. They will take over the world like mini triffids.

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neversaydie · 19/04/2010 20:42

Creeping buttercup, rosebay willow herb and herds purse. I hate them all...

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WynkenBlynkenandNod · 19/04/2010 20:50

I currently have a pathological hatred of couch grass and a huge pile to get rid of.

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mehgalegs · 19/04/2010 20:54

Ground elder here too.

Do you have to report it if you have Japanese knotweed?

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mehgalegs · 19/04/2010 20:56

www.environment-agency.gov.uk/business/sectors/31364.aspx

Look here, it's baaaaad stuff

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aJumpedUpPantryBoy · 19/04/2010 21:08

Our local council aren't interested in Japanese Knotweed if it is on private land as it isn't a notifiable weed - mind you, they can't control it on the verges of some of the lanes.
It is awful stuff, I'm really hoping we will be able to kill it for good this year.

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mehgalegs · 19/04/2010 21:15

It sounds horrendous. ground Elder pales in comparison. Some friends of ours have that horrible horse tail stuff, they keep thinking it's gone when up it pops.

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mehgalegs · 19/04/2010 21:16

There was a patch of Knotweed just down the road from here, on the verge next to the pond. i asked DH what the pretty flowers were and he enlightened me.

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Icanseethesea · 19/04/2010 21:19

Ground elder. Nightmare. I even started looking up recipes for it last year in a 'can't beat it so we'll eat it' campaign. Don't bother.

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taffetacat · 19/04/2010 21:37

Ground elder, buttercup, nettles galore in the bottom section, couch grass mostly gone and that weirdy sticky star shaped stuff I never know the name of.

I hate the buttercup most of all as I hate yellow shiny flowers, I think I've got it all, gangly roots and all, blink and there's another blardy one taunting me. In my veg patch too, how very dare they?

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meltedmarsbars · 19/04/2010 21:39

Sticky willie?

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SixtyFootDoll · 19/04/2010 21:46

Cranebill

I thought it was a lovley flower for a long time until it took over my garden!

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mehgalegs · 19/04/2010 21:48

You wanna get that sorted meltedmars.

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meltedmarsbars · 19/04/2010 21:53

I meant, is sticky willie the thing Taffetacat has!

Mehgalegs: I don't have a willie, sticky or otherwise!

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taffetacat · 19/04/2010 22:01

Nooooo......it can't be called that! I can't google it to check either

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taffetacat · 19/04/2010 22:06

I googled sticky weeds instead

You are quite right meltedmarsbars, otherwise known as goosegrass and its edible. No rude comments please.....

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maryz · 19/04/2010 22:16

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navyeyelasH · 19/04/2010 22:32

I have moss and spiky things in the lawn, knotweed, and that purple flowery pretty weed thing.

I also have this but I don't know if it's a weed?!

One thing that made a massive dent in my knotweed last summer was collecting lots of 'branches' together, spraying with weedkiller then sticking the ends in a carrier bag and knotting it on. Worked a treat!!

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aJumpedUpPantryBoy · 19/04/2010 22:33

What does the cornflour do maryz?

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SixtyFootDoll · 19/04/2010 22:36

maryz - sounds like my 'lawn' - the moss holds it together!

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SixtyFootDoll · 19/04/2010 22:37

cranesbill

bane of my life

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aJumpedUpPantryBoy · 19/04/2010 22:42

I love cranesbill

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