Favourite weeds:)

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Favourite weeds:)
« on: July 24, 2011, 18:04 »
As you are all aware, weeds are the main frustration when you have a garden or allotment, or anything, as you all know, weeds get everywhere (including top of buildings :ohmy:).  Anyway, just a little bit of a laugh, what do you find your favourite and/or least favourite weed that you pull up.  Mine is: favourite, crouch grass: I love pulling the long roots out.  My least favourite is chickweed - I really hate that weed :mad:
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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2011, 18:17 »
I own up to loving red poppies and give them space along the boundary  :D
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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2011, 19:00 »
I don`t mind, too much, any weed that doesn`t break off when I pull it up, and I agree, chickweed is one of the worse. My philosophy is simple, pull it up before it gets an inch high.
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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2011, 19:13 »
Favourite weeds?

Dead ones!
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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2011, 20:07 »
Favourite weeds?

Dead ones!

Took the words out of my mouth. ::) I don't consider poppies weed, though. Pretty flowers. :)
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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2011, 01:42 »
Would it still be a weed if you liked it though, isnt a weed just a plant that you dont want to grow, typically self sown, so if you like a poppy, and want it to grow, is it still a weed  :unsure:
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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2011, 02:40 »
I used to hate weeds until I got chickens.  Now I love all the weeds that they love!  They will seek out and destroy some of the most invasive weeds we have  - tradescantia, oxalis, kikuyu grass, dandelion, etc.  The only ones they won't touch are nightshades, which are very easy for me to pull up once the chickens have done the rest.

So I no longer hate weeds!  :D

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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2011, 07:37 »
That's interesting Lindeggs.  My chooks are obsessed with pecking my Tradescantia plant and I'm forever chasing them off it, but mine was bought and not a weed  :mad:  They get really sneaky about it now as they know they are not supposed to be eating it  ::)

I like the self seeded annual flowers on my plot, which are technically weeds, but hate bindweed which infested the plot when I took it over and still pops up its head here and there.

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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2011, 09:35 »
at the moment with the problem with the plot next door......I don't mind the usual annual self seeded ones except all the blooming grass seeds blowing over  :mad:

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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2011, 10:30 »
Exactly the same here mum, the plotholder to the west and upwind of mine loves his weeds so much he can`t bear to hoe them. >:(


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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2011, 22:07 »
Weed ? Corydalis lutea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudofumaria_lutea

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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2011, 15:22 »
Favourite-chickweed,corn salad and hairy bittercress.They all pep up a salad really well.I also let hawkweed have a go where I can manage if as I like the burnt orange colour.

Hate-Creeping buttercup.I've got a patch of batchelors button which are lovely in spring but as they are the same family as creeping buttercup the foliage is really difficult to tell appart,especially when young so it's always a bit of russian roulette what gets pulled out.Very stressful

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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2011, 15:51 »
I like groundsel and thistles, so do the birds  :D

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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2011, 16:41 »
My favourite weed is the daisy. My granddaughter and i sit in the garden making daisy chains. :nowink:

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Re: Favourite weeds:)
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2011, 17:02 »
where I used to live all the pavement cracks were filled with Kenilworth Ivy, and that's a very pretty weed wild flower
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