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Title: Weed ID- like river weeds
Post by: Etheldreda on July 15, 2017, 21:47
Can anyone ID these in my new polytunnel? They look identical to the river reeds by my narrowboat.... and the polytunnel is only 15m from a dyke, and 400m from the great ouse. All I know is that they have very deel roots.

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Title: Re: Weed ID- like river weeds
Post by: 8doubles on July 16, 2017, 10:33
Looks like common reed to me .
Title: Re: Weed ID- like river weeds
Post by: shedmeister on July 16, 2017, 19:19
You have an encreapment from the cut. Haveseen it many times having lived 10 years on the oxford canal