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You are visiting an open garden and you see a weedling

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
in The potting shed
What do you do?
In London. Keen but lazy.

You are visiting an open garden and you see a weedling 42 votes

Pull it out
23%
hogweedThankthecatfidgetbones[Deleted User]plant pauperAnna33SuesynTheRicksterDeeLynnK67 10 votes
Leave it
76%
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Leave it
    I twitch but leave it 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited June 2018
    Leave it
    with some difficulty, I'd leave it. Unless I was distracted, talking to someone. I pull up some weeds - bittercress, for example - without really knowing I'm doing it. Then find myself with a handful of seedy weeds I don't know what to do with. Our washing machine filter is regularly full of weed seeds from the weeds stuffed into my pockets [whistling emoji]
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Pull it out
    Definitely whip it out! I even do it when I'm dog walking if I can reach. 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    My friend pulled out a weed at an open garden last weekend and I was a bit shocked. 'maybe they wanted it' I thought, after all our discussion here on the forum about the virtues of dandelions and common geums.  Some friends love herb robert (I can't stand it, the plant or the smell). So I am careful these days. I think I deadhead without even knowing what my hands are doing, but some people take it as a criticism. It's not at all, I do it at bus stops and in pubs. It's just an automatic reflex.

    Now when I see weeds in open gardens I just silently celebrate. I saw lots of bindweed last weekend and I thought - "ooo their garden is a bit like mine. The owner is mortal." But then again, maybe their gardener just missed a bit. 

    The friend went about stamping on snails in the open garden. The owner is a born-again, vegan, Christian, and I concluded it was time for us to make a quick exit.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Leave it
    leave it. weed is a personal decision.


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Definitely leave it. 
    Yesterday our gardening group went round a local 7 acre open garden, where the elderly owner now needs 2 sticks to walk - and has a gardener for 3 half days a week.  He's accepted he can't do a lot of weeding, and has crammed his garden so there's no room for "nasty" weeds - and accepts many others into his borders, eg the buttercups contrasting beautifully with the candelabra primulas in this photo.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Feel happy that other people have the same problem as we do.
  • stewyfizzstewyfizz Posts: 161
    Leave it
    Leave it. I have enough weeding my own garden let alone anyone elses!
    Gardening. The cause of, and solution to, all of my problems.
  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    Leave it
    I feel it's a bit rude to pull weeds out of someone else's garden.  I'd be a bit insulted if someone did it in mine.
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Leave it
    Pull a weed out of my garden at your peril! One mans weed is another mans wildflower 
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