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« Reply #300 on: April 23, 2013, 20:01 »
It looks like bindweed to me. I have found that the roots rarely go more than a spade and a half deep, and most are nearer the surface than that, you just need to make sure you that you get all of the root.  :)

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« Reply #301 on: April 23, 2013, 20:27 »
Ok, definitely sounds to be what I am finding. I shall look forward to digging that up for years to come then.....

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« Reply #302 on: April 27, 2013, 16:23 »
Ok, me again. I am starting to find these seedlings all over some of my beds - any idea what they are? I haven't got round to weeding these beds today as I have been concentrating on the nettles and bindweed at the back...






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« Reply #303 on: April 27, 2013, 16:41 »
I don't suppose anyone knows this one?



Amazingly it came out of a packet of tomato seeds :blink: it sprouted the same time as my tomato seedlings, in the same row and spacing for a seed, in compost that hadn't been handled outside. So it must have gotten in the packet somehow... initially mistook it for a very weak seedling, but then allowed it to grow out of curiosity.

Now the seedlings have been long transplanted I stuck it in a trough outside until I can identify it. Any thoughts?


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« Reply #304 on: April 27, 2013, 17:03 »
I don't suppose anyone knows this one?



Amazingly it came out of a packet of tomato seeds :blink: it sprouted the same time as my tomato seedlings, in the same row and spacing for a seed, in compost that hadn't been handled outside. So it must have gotten in the packet somehow... initially mistook it for a very weak seedling, but then allowed it to grow out of curiosity.

Now the seedlings have been long transplanted I stuck it in a trough outside until I can identify it. Any thoughts?


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Chickweed. A very common garden weed. The seeds are tiny and could well have come in stuck to a trowell or dibber

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« Reply #305 on: April 27, 2013, 17:07 »
Ok, me again. I am starting to find these seedlings all over some of my beds - any idea what they are? I haven't got round to weeding these beds today as I have been concentrating on the nettles and bindweed at the back...





I think it is fat hen, or closely related orache. Do the backs of those first true leaves have a silvery look. Now is the time to run a hoe through and kill them. Leave them to get bigger and they will be hard work.

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #306 on: April 27, 2013, 17:19 »
Doesn't matter what it is - just hoe it off quick, before it gets bigger  :lol:

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« Reply #307 on: April 27, 2013, 17:38 »
Chickweed. A very common garden weed. The seeds are tiny and could well have come in stuck to a trowell or dibber

Thanks! I cannot imagine how it got in. I used a dibber but it was a new one straight out of a sealed packet.

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« Reply #308 on: April 27, 2013, 17:54 »
Ok, I will hoe them off tomorrow - I just didnt want to do that and find out that by hoeing them off I helped to spread it about! I don't know if they are silvery on the back - I will have a look more closely tomorrow.

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #309 on: April 27, 2013, 18:01 »
Evening guys. What what is this and what is the best way of dealing with it?
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When weeding, the best way to know if its a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull it.

If it comes out easy, it was a valuable plant !

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« Reply #310 on: April 27, 2013, 20:22 »
Evening guys. What what is this and what is the best way of dealing with it?
I wonder, could it be a verbascum?
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« Reply #311 on: April 27, 2013, 21:16 »
If it hasn't been planted then I would suggest a mullein, which is of the same family but can grow like a weed.

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #312 on: April 27, 2013, 21:36 »
Looks a bit like a potato to me  :ohmy:

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #313 on: April 27, 2013, 22:46 »
Definately not a spud. Has a 2-foot tap root about the thickness of a pack of polo's.

There are quite a few of them around my plot unfortunately.

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« Reply #314 on: April 27, 2013, 23:00 »
Sounds even more like mullein.



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