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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #165 on: April 11, 2012, 16:35 »
I've just had a read up on this stuff, nasty! I've pulled both of them (there were two stems about 5 foot apart from eachother. I could only get about 6 inches up and could find no more root???

Will have to keep checking as it's quite well camouflaged :( Aside from being relentless are they going to cause any damage to other plants in the garden?

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #166 on: April 11, 2012, 17:01 »
They're more than a nuisance than anything. They don't respond well to your average weed killers and roots go down miles.

The old adages of "never let it see a Sunday" and " keep the hoe moving" certainly ring true in this case.

I've got it, but pleased to say after 9 years of hoeing, it's not so prevalent.
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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« Reply #167 on: April 11, 2012, 21:01 »
I know to gardeners they are 'orrible things, but horse tails are wonderful things.  They are prehistoric plants that as they develop turn to a brittle silicone.  Really useful for pot scourers when out camping.

And even better, in this young stage you can eat them.  Great fried in butter and covered in cheese sauce.  Just don't eat them every day as they can deplete you of some vitamins.
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« Reply #168 on: April 13, 2012, 16:55 »
And another very odd visitor next to my peony! It sounds like seed pods if i tap the 'bud'. it also kicked up something powdery when i tapped it. Any ideas????

I found I had tons of that weed today. Went to plant the carrots in the one raised bed I do have, that was nicely prepared two weeks ago,  and found a couple of heads sticking up.

Digging to pull that one up I found one, then another, then three more, then another one, and so on until by the end of today I had dug a third of the plot up! So much for turning soil over to a spade's depth!! I only stopped when I cut my finger on a sharp of glass and was bleeding everywhere (I had no plasters :( )

And now I go on here to find out the head releases spores... well at least I know better now. Going to go back to the allotment in a few days time with some plastic bags and finish the job off...

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #169 on: April 17, 2012, 19:10 »
Does this look like couch grass? Got a fair bit but i won't compost if it is.
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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #170 on: April 17, 2012, 19:36 »
Yes it does look couchy

You can drown in in a barrel of water and add it to the compost (plus the water) when it is slimy

Werked a treat fer me when I had loads, and sooooo satisfying too  :D
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The "W" word (weeds)
« Reply #171 on: April 23, 2012, 18:05 »
Hi everyone
This is my first posting and apologies if you've heard it before, but having checked through this afternoon, I can't see an answer. I've recently dug over a neglected veg patch, pulling out as many weed roots as I could find. I was feeling pretty proud, I can tell you, then lo! some little devil has started colonising my lovely bare earth (knew it would happen). It's a very small leaved (two leaves actually) plant, with bright white stems - quite thick under the surface. Looked like someone had sprinkled cress on the ground. Anyone know what it is and what's going to happen next - do I just keep hoeing it? Very poor picture taken with my phone attached.
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Re: The "W" word (weeds)
« Reply #172 on: April 23, 2012, 18:08 »
Welcome to the forums.

It's a bit hard to tell, but it looks a lot like a "Fat Hen" seedling.

Just keep the hoe moving.

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #173 on: April 23, 2012, 18:12 »
I've merged your post with the existing "What weed is this" sticky.

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #174 on: April 24, 2012, 16:23 »
My wildflower patch which is in a shady area under plum trees has been overrun by this stuff and I don't know what it is. Any ideas?
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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #175 on: April 24, 2012, 16:45 »
Look like dead nettle.

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #176 on: April 25, 2012, 18:51 »
Thanks for that DD. As it is a wild area I think I'll just let them grow, assuming they are not as invasive as real nettles.

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #177 on: April 25, 2012, 19:21 »
Not quite as - they'll attract the insects of course, which won't hurt!

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« Reply #178 on: April 27, 2012, 13:35 »
I agree it looks like a dead nettle.
Not actually form the nettle family, but the mint family.  Easy to tell as it will have a square stem.

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Re: What weed is this ? Please post pics of your weeds here!
« Reply #179 on: April 27, 2012, 19:33 »
We used to be overrun with Fat Hen, and it seemed to go away several years ago.

It's returned in a big way, and gets a clobbering of course, but I can remember it being totally rampant back in the eighties, so perhaps it's listening to the BBC about globule worming...



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