[Middlesexbloke]

Have a weed that I cannot identify....looks a bit like pale persicaria but has pink-brown perennial rhizomes creeping through the soil at some depth...any ideas what it might be?

[Tracybutton]

Another one here for docks. Our plot was carpeted in them when we got it three years ago and I'm still digging a few of them out. The plot next door rotated before digging his out and now has a massive problem 

[BumbleJo]

Horsetail/mares tail, yes I know the difference😊. My 2nd half plot is riddled with it. I used to really stress about it but now I just let it grow to 7-10cms & carefully pull it up. I dig it out as much as I can but now it doesn't bother me half as much

I thought horsetail and mares tail was the same thing?  I've just discovered whichever one it is creeping under my fence from next door's garden.  Not happy!

[snowdrops]

Horsetail/mares tail, yes I know the difference😊. My 2nd half plot is riddled with it. I used to really stress about it but now I just let it grow to 7-10cms & carefully pull it up. I dig it out as much as I can but now it doesn't bother me half as much

I thought horsetail and mares tail was the same thing?  I've just discovered whichever one it is creeping under my fence from next door's garden.  Not happy!

Apparently horsetail is the garden variety & marestail grows in wet watery soil or even in water. Either way they are a @@@@@@@@ to get rid of

[MalcW]

Wild garlic and bindweed for me.

[Salmo]

Have a weed that I cannot identify....looks a bit like pale persicaria but has pink-brown perennial rhizomes creeping through the soil at some depth...any ideas what it might be?

What you have is bisorte. It is a persicaria. It is a marsh plant and is found on wet soils. The roots go down very deep. It is found as an agricultural weed in the peat soils of the Cambridgeshire Fens. There are cultivated forms of it.

[Audy70]

Creeping buttercup and couch grass, there are everywhere 

[oakridge]

Bracken, nettles and Horsetail (sticky buds).

[mumofstig]

Bindweed and couch - both coming in from the shared path 

[jaydig]

Have a weed that I cannot identify....looks a bit like pale persicaria but has pink-brown perennial rhizomes creeping through the soil at some depth...any ideas what it might be?

Don't know what it's called, but I have that too, and the name I call it is unrepeatable.  It seems to be indestructable.

[brokenglass]

Horsetail although I am much more relaxed about it now that I realies that I won't get rid of out but can ,mostly, control it.

[AlaninCarlisle]

Wild garlic and bindweed for me.

Hahaha, I love wild garlic so much that I bought a couple of dozen roots to naturalise in an uncultivated bank under a hedge

[AnneB]

Bindweed, couch grass and horsetail now, in that order.


When I first took on my plot, horsetail, horsetail and horsetail in any order.  Now, after many months of digging out sieveing, it's a pussy cat.

[RJR_38]

I would love to have wild garlic as an issue!
For me it is creeping buttercup - I can't seem to get it out of my grass paths and it takes over!,

[Middlesexbloke]

This is my problem weed....vile stuff! No idea what it is! Thank you for your suggestions.