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Horrible oniony grass in my borders

carolepodda4ggx1dmcarolepodda4ggx1dm Posts: 6
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Does anybody know what this horrible weed is.  How to get rid of it?
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  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    A picture would help but I'm wondering if it's grape hyacinth 
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    Or allium molly?
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    If it smells oniony, it's one of the weedy alliums.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They're a PITA .I think all you can do is hoe  off the leaves or dig them out of pinch out the leaves from plants it's sneaked under and be vigilant about removing the seeds from any you've missed. Another cut off at the ankles and forget until next year weed. At least, if it gets in the grass, it looks grasslike. Mowing might make it give up.
    I've got it in a flower bed and I've given up trying to eliminate it.  Fortunately,so far, it doesn't seem to be harming other plants in the bed.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    Chives?? 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If only!!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • mealtenmealten Posts: 1
    Could be Garlic Chives-  onion chives don't spread- but the Garlic ones do-by seed. i stupidly planted some many years ago- and have been fighting them ever since.  I get them all dug up , i think, then some manage to go to seed and I start all over again. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Chives spread by seed but also expansion of the clumps be they the usual purple flowered ones or garlic chives.  The only ones I've found that aren't likley to make a world takeover bid are the smaller white flowered onion chives which have both finer leaves and a finer flavour.

    Your grassy onion smelling weed could be one of many of the allium family from 3 cornered leeks to chives to seedlings from ornamental onions.  Regular hoeing to remove leaves will stop the food supply to the bulbs and they'll eventually give up and you can also fork it out in clumps and leave to dry before it goes on the compost heap.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • carolepodda4ggx1dmcarolepodda4ggx1dm Posts: 6
    mealten said:
    Could be Garlic Chives-  onion chives don't spread- but the Garlic ones do-by seed. i stupidly planted some many years ago- and have been fighting them ever since.  I get them all dug up , i think, then some manage to go to seed and I start all over again. 
    They are growing from very small round bulbs

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Onion grass?  Have a look at this old thread:

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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