I know it as cleavers or Sticky Willy if it's the same one I'm fighting here.
It's an annual which is a good thing. This means that if you keep pulling it out before it seeds, then eventually you'll beat it (this is my mantra).
The way I tackle it is to wear sleeves and gloves and get in there and pull it out before it flowers. I've almost thought of an invention that would attach to a battery powered drill and turn a woolly sleeve that you would wind into a cleavers nest! It sticks like crazy and if your arms aren't covered, it scratches and leaves red welts.
ohh my goodness Cloggie sounds like you have a sticky problem to have deal with also. I sincerely wish you the best of luck its going to be very hard work
I don't think I'm familiar with this one but I googled it and though it doesn't say it's edible, it doesn't say it's poisonous either!
I remember I once saw a commercial gardener, who specialised in herbs, and ate every weed that grew in his garden; obviously, he didn't have any poisonous ones. He told Carol (I think), "don't kill them, eat them!"
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I know it as cleavers or Sticky Willy if it's the same one I'm fighting here.
It's an annual which is a good thing. This means that if you keep pulling it out before it seeds, then eventually you'll beat it (this is my mantra).
The way I tackle it is to wear sleeves and gloves and get in there and pull it out before it flowers. I've almost thought of an invention that would attach to a battery powered drill and turn a woolly sleeve that you would wind into a cleavers nest!
It sticks like crazy and if your arms aren't covered, it scratches and leaves red welts.
Different plant Cloggie, that's Galium aparine, an annual, aka goosegrass, Sticky Willie. Flowers from the leaf axils all up the stem,same family
this is perennial and has a cluster of flowers at the end of the stem
In the sticks near Peterborough
A perennial Sticky Willy? Wow. Glad I don't have to deal with that.
ohh my goodness Cloggie sounds like you have a sticky problem to have deal with also. I sincerely wish you the best of luck its going to be very hard work
And now the good news: it's, apparently, edible. I'll sort it out next spring!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galium_aparine
but the OP isn't Galium aparine, can you eat G. album? It's much tougher
In the sticks near Peterborough
I don't think I'm familiar with this one but I googled it and though it doesn't say it's edible, it doesn't say it's poisonous either!
I remember I once saw a commercial gardener, who specialised in herbs, and ate every weed that grew in his garden; obviously, he didn't have any poisonous ones. He told Carol (I think), "don't kill them, eat them!"
Perhaps one could casserole this one!