Chickweed.

Just cleared an area of a raised bed between the beetroot and the spinach of just (nearly) one weed.  An area of about a square yard, or one yard square.

How can chickweed grow and thrive with such a miniscule stem! ! !

But it is my favourite weed to weed (if you know what I mean).   Carefully feel around under a mat of leaves and zone in on resistance and carefully teaze out.  Now there is a Two foot thick wodge in the compost bin.

Cheers,    Tony.

It is a great feeling to clear it! My favourite to remove is bindweed, great when you remove the whole root! I find chickweed a bit annoying as mine seems to do the same as Jay's and snap off at the root

The absolutely best thing about bindweed is that I've not got any in my garden!   

It is a great feeling to clear it! My favourite to remove is bindweed, great when you remove the whole root! I find chickweed a bit annoying as mine seems to do the same as Jay's and snap off at the root

the chap with two types of chickweed. I wondered if the low growing darker one could be mouse eared chickweed. Its a common lawn weed  but is happy to grow almost anywhere!

I've got two types - one with lime green leaves which grows fairly upright and pulls out quite easily, and the other with darker leaves which creeps several inches in each direction and nearly always snaps off at soil level! 

Just been having a closer look at these two jokers ( ) - the lime green one is probably Petty Spurge, also known as milkweed, the other one almost certainly Common Chickweed (how apt!)