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If you could eliminate one thing from your garden - not the planet ......

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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @B3  Can we have 1 animal and 1 vegetal, please?

    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Docks. The birds do love them but they are so hard to get out once they're over 2 feet tall
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    B3 said:
    Are you sure @Jenny_Aster What about all the bugs that would survive without frost?
    The question never mentioned 'sensible'  ;)
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You may not have the bun AND the biscuit @tui34
    Sensible is overrated @Jenny_Aster

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    edited March 2022
    Bother!!   :/

    Well then, the bunny that has taken up residence in my garden.  Snug and dry behind a dense asparagus fern.

    Anyway, the vegetal has already been mentioned by someone (who lives in France....nearish me).  :)
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Clay  - well not eliminate it entirely or I wouldn't have a garden, but change it for something easier to work with.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Mmm, this is a tough one. I have several garden thugs I could choose. 

    I thought about alkanet and then creeping buttercup but at least those two have pretty flowers and the insects love them. Then pondered mares tail but it’s quite weedy here (pardon the pun) and I quite like the feathery foliage (which helps hide the bluebells as they die down). But that then put bluebells (spanish and native) into the running but again they are pretty and liked by the bees etc.

    So finally the winner (loser?) for me is couch grass, which has no redeeming features at all
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You have given the matter deserved consideration😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • WillowBarkWillowBark Posts: 243
    Cat poo. Not cats, I love cats, I just wish they didn't decide that my veg beds made the perfect lavatory. If we were allowed more choices, dock and bittercress would be in the running, but at least I don't have to arm myself with rubber gloves, a bin bag, and a clothes peg in order to remove them.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited March 2022
    Overlook 

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