Could you identify this weed?

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• Ghfd Posts: 3

  April 2019

  
  

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• Ghfd Posts: 3

  April 2019

  
  

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  April 2019

  I don't know what it is, but I get it too.
  I just pull it up - I think it's an annual weed.
  Rosate36 would kill it, but I don't think chemicals are needed and best avoided if possible.

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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• glasgowdan Posts: 632

  April 2019

  Yep, hit it with glyphosate. It'll keep coming back if you mess about hand weeding

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  April 2019

  It looks to me like speedwell ... what we used to call as children “Bird’s Eye” with little blue flowers. A common weed of cultivated ground big doesn’t need chemicals ... in fact they can make it worse as they act too slowly to prevent the plants producing seed. 
  
  Just pull out what there is now, then use a Dutch hoe regularly to remove the tiny seedlings that keep reappearing. Remove them before they flower and produce seed and you’ll keep on top of them ... no open ground will ever be weed-free ... regular hoeing is the way to go. https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/tools/weeding-with-a-dutch-hoe.htm
  
  Remember the gardening adage “one year’s seeds is seven year’s weeds’ so keep hoeing to prevent weeds from seeding. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  April 2019

  I thought Glyphosate was banned now, our garden centre sells weed killer marked ‘non Glyphosate’ 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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