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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #361 on: May 20, 2013, 19:17 »
On the whole I've no objection to "hairy"  ::) but the bittercress plant version is a different subject altogether!  :mad:

Never saw it in my garden until about 5 years ago (I'm guessing it came in with a bought pot plant - only good news is that it pulls out very easily.)
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« Reply #362 on: May 20, 2013, 21:38 »
Any ideas on this one, I thought I was digging out coutch but I have never seen it like this before?
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« Reply #363 on: May 20, 2013, 21:44 »
Bluebells? Montbretia? Or do they smell oniony/garlicky?
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« Reply #364 on: May 20, 2013, 22:53 »
I've been digging stuff like this all afternoon and it is montbretia. Lots of bulbs clustered together with grass roots intertwined.
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« Reply #365 on: June 01, 2013, 17:06 »
So digging out my jungle still and finding all sorts in it! Some treasures (rhubarb crowns), lots of junk (rusty metal, plastic bags and bits of packaging) but mostly nettles, ivy and bindweed. I have found 2 plants of this though. Any ideas if it is friend or foe before I pull it out?






And I think this is the same but smaller:

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #366 on: June 01, 2013, 19:42 »
Looks a bit like burdock and if so definately foe with a 2 foot tap root!
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« Reply #367 on: June 01, 2013, 19:50 »
I've just looked at burdock images online and I don't think it is that - but if that ends up being people's best guess l Will get it pulled up this week

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #368 on: June 02, 2013, 17:03 »
Give it a bit more time, there a many more experienced than me.....

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« Reply #369 on: June 03, 2013, 15:43 »
Any ideas on this one, I thought I was digging out coutch but I have never seen it like this before?

What you have there is Onion couch. Instead of spreading by creeping rhizomes onion couch form chains of corms that break off when you cultivate. They are not killed by drying out and can stay dormant in the soil for a couple of years. It also seeds prolifically if you leave it to flower. I think it in fact a sub species of tall oat grass.

Difficult to eradicate by cultivation but glyphosate kills it. The trick is to get them to sprout.

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #370 on: June 06, 2013, 11:28 »
It could be Clary Sage??
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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #371 on: June 06, 2013, 23:02 »
I've been away on business for the last week and a half and my plot has gone nuts with weeds. I can hoe it easily, but want to know what I'm dealing with. I think there maybe a some veg in there leftover from the previous years tenant:

No 1 - is this a veg? Just above this I can see one of my bean plants popping through):


No 2 - really for context:


No 3:


No 4:


No 5:


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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #372 on: June 07, 2013, 07:29 »
1 Looks like borage. Are the leaves very rough?

3,4,&5 have lots of fat hen. You can eat it but most people don't. Pull it up and straight into the compost before it flowers again (It's the one with the slightly glaucous leaves that have wavy edges) Grows really fast

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« Reply #373 on: June 07, 2013, 07:50 »
Thanks.  I'm going to be down there tomorrow, so hopefully will be able to clear this all up.  I cannot believe how fast all this came through.  The plot wasn't well looked after by the previous owner and it was left to go to weeds/seeds, so I'm assuming there was little I could do but wit for all of this to come up to deal with it now?

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« Reply #374 on: June 07, 2013, 10:36 »
Weeds are not something you deal with once and that's it.....it's an on-going job, worse luck  :nowink:
Hoe them off as often as you can - but definitely before they set seed and make yours and everybody else's problem worse.

If you mark all your seed rows it's fairly easy then to hoe everything that isn't in a row. Hand weed the rows when it is obvious which are veg and which are weeds. Good luck with the plot  :)



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