[green fingers]

Well what did everyone think of last Friday's episode?  I cant wait to watch and then come onto the forum to see "the comments".  There are similarities to our allotment site - plenty of spite and bile (and thats the men!!) some nice ones too.  Who says allotments arent political!!

[ck2day]

Can someone settle an argument in my family?  

Is it couch grass as in couch potato or cooch grass and in coochy coo?

always thought it was the former but big bruvver says its the latter cos JS calls it cooch grass and would so love him to be wrong (big bruvver that is)        

[Yorkie]

Sorry to disappoint, but I've always called it cooch grass  

[John]

However, the spelling is couch

It's also called twitch or switch and often called !3$%%%!!

[Bernard]

I always used to call it 'twitch grass' but I seem to have been brainwashed by Gardeners' World and others into calling it 'cooch grass'.

It is sad that our little local idiosyncracies are being homogenised by the telly.

[DD.]

'Twitch' it is here.

[Welsh Girls Allotment]

I call it cwtch rhymes with butch - and I always get sideways looks when I say it - my Dad calls it cooch or that b*****d grass  

[cawdor2001]

it is definitely pronounced cooch, but spelt couch as John says.  Latin name Agropyron repens although had a name change in recent times to Elymus repens

Cawdor

[dumpling]

That's fascinating  :roll: ... no really it is.

I just googled and it seems it has been renamed from a grass to
a wild rye. So should it really be couch rye?

[cawdor2001]

 

[halfawhale]

Hi everyone,
Just thought I would ask does anyone remember that tv show called "The Victorian Walled Garden" that was brill bring that back I say.
Jan.

[Treehugger]

Just to be really pedantic, shouldn't it be "cooSH" rather than "cooCH" as it may come from the French "coucher" - to lie (down)? After all it does lie down and root all over the blinkin' place.

OK, maybe I should get out more...

[Bernard]

According to my 1932 New English Dictionary it can be pronounced 'kooch' or 'kouch'.

No doubt it is derived from the French, but we know how to pronounce it correctly, don't we?

[digital_biscuit]

i cant believe there is a thread on how to pronounce something! It had me chuckling!!

Im a couch as in couch potatoe person myself, and spent yesterday digging the blighter up, didnt get all roots so will be kept busy this summer i reckons!! grrrrr

[cooperman]

my lottie is qwite poosh and we call it carwch  gruss....