Weed duly pulled out! Many thanks. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. ?? I’ve a million gardening related questions for you but I’ll save them for another day! ?
Fallen leaves make a great hiding place for slugs just waiting for your seedlings and perennials to come up. They make wonderful compost which you can put on your soil without attracting slugs.
Leaves can be cleared from bark areas with a blower when it's really dry and the leaves crisp up.
In general i clear leaves from lawns but don't bother much with borders in my own gardens. In customers gardens they are always cleared using a blower to pile them for raking, or put them onto lawns for mowing up.
Don't be afraid to accidentally clear up some bits of bark...
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Lost in Suffolk ... looks like a large plant of Dog's Mercury http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/species/dogs-mercury
Lots of it in the woodlands and hedgerows of Suffolk when I was a child.
Usually regarded as a weed when in appears in gardens.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I believe it is some kind of weed amaranth (pigweed), perhaps Amaranthus hybridus.
Weed duly pulled out! Many thanks. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. ?? I’ve a million gardening related questions for you but I’ll save them for another day! ?
Unless leaves are thick and wet and slimy, I leave them alone ( see what I did then?
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Most things are able to push through. The only thing I'd be concerned about are little alpines like saxifrage which are very ground hugging.
Fallen leaves make a great hiding place for slugs just waiting for your seedlings and perennials to come up. They make wonderful compost which you can put on your soil without attracting slugs.
Leaves can be cleared from bark areas with a blower when it's really dry and the leaves crisp up.
In general i clear leaves from lawns but don't bother much with borders in my own gardens. In customers gardens they are always cleared using a blower to pile them for raking, or put them onto lawns for mowing up.
Don't be afraid to accidentally clear up some bits of bark...
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