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You are visiting an open garden and you see a weedling

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Leave it
    I do open my garden for the NGS and I would be seriously annoyed, not offended, if my carefully tended wildlife friendly efforts were interfered with


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ChrisWMChrisWM Posts: 214
    Leave it
    Easy. Leave it. I wouldn’t know weed from desired plant!
    If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Leave it, bad manners to put it out. Someone told me with great glee at my Open Garden last year that they had pulled out some bindweed. I should have been delighted but I felt insulted.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited June 2018
    Leave it
    I would think pulling up bindweed would be very unhelpful as well as rude. It's bound to break and you'll have two instead of one. Likewise anything that's got a deep root - docks and dandelions and the like. It's not like you can pull them out easily. But most of the willow herbs make my weeding fingers itch where they pop up in the middle of something else - one solitary straggly stalk in the middle of a shrub. I would try not to, honest. It's just sometimes the muscles will react before the brain has noticed :blush:
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Daisy33Daisy33 Posts: 1,031
    Leave it
    Leave it. They might spot it and want me to do a tidy up in their house...eek. The last time I voluntarily did housework, Victoria was on the throne, and I didn't clean up after that either. :D
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Leave it
    I went to Batemans yesterday and I didn't :)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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