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What is your most problematic weed you find?

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Bindweed and some bramble coming in from gardens either side.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Red Oxalis and Hairy Bittercress.
  • Some kind of field grass. It grows into big clumps rather like a low growing  bamboo. Creeping buttercup. Is Bitter cress what I call Shepherds Purse? It has tiny white flowers and seed pods which spray seeds everywhere when touched.. Brambles.
    Celandine, a nightmare. the bulbils are like grains of soil, difficult to see, difficult to pick up.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited March 2022
    I have oxalis and celendine but I don't find they get in the way.

    Shepherd's Purse is Capsella bursa-pastoris. Apparently Greek shepherds used to have purses made from sheeps' testicles, hence the name. A brassica.




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    Hairy bittercress is Cardamine hirsuta. It has distinctive radical leaf growth. Little white growth.




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    Both are edible.
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    Field Horsetail... Rosebay Willowherb... Germander Speedwell... Wood Sorrel..

    I'm just waiting for Japanese Knotweed to show up then I'll have a nap hand.. 
    East Anglia, England
  • alfharris8alfharris8 Posts: 513
    Ground Elder with it's spaghetti like roots.
    Can you ever thug out a thug? - would prefer a cultivated invasive than this rubbish. 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    The speedwell/veronica is pretty.
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    Bindweed and purslane........yes, I know you can eat it but it is a pain in the garden.
  • a1154a1154 Posts: 1,108
    My new plot has (deep breath) Russian vine, bindweed, ground elder absolutely everywhere, geum urbanum, few flowered garlic, nettles and celandine.  I think I’m on top of the Russian vine and (possibly) the bindweed. 
    Actually one plant annoying me at the moment is cow parsley! I don’t really hate it, but it’s everywhere and has a really long tap root. 
  • zugeniezugenie Posts: 831
    Going to either be nettles or brambles, I’ll let you know :D

    Currently nettles are winning as they are everywhere, I dug as much as I possible could out but I’m still seeing bits pop up. They go all the way out into the lawn but I’m hoping regular mowing will put an end to those 
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