If they are bindweed seedlings (rather than springing up from bits of a broken mature root) they should be easy to get rid of. Fingers crossed that they are beans though - still a possibility!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
The last time beans would have been grown on it would have been 5/6 years ago, unless they were dumped on it last summer maybe - it was an ignored plot for several years, and used as a fly tipping spot for two years. We dug up half a car engine last month!
I also get lots of field bindweed (pink flowers) and hedge bindweed. I thought today that beans and bindweed look very alike. The stems are different though and you can only tell by close examination. Gently tugging on bindweed brings up the thick white roots.
No it's ok! I think we will just pull everything up that looks remotely weed-like. We left it for a week or so while we had some 'us' time away from gardening, and they've swamped the lettuces we had sewn, it won't take much to weed it all and sew some more and be a tad more vigilant! The front garden is pretty much taken up with broccoli in little pots too, so maybe we'll put them in there instead. The world is our oyster as they say!
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If they are bindweed seedlings (rather than springing up from bits of a broken mature root) they should be easy to get rid of. Fingers crossed that they are beans though - still a possibility!
The last time beans would have been grown on it would have been 5/6 years ago, unless they were dumped on it last summer maybe - it was an ignored plot for several years, and used as a fly tipping spot for two years. We dug up half a car engine last month!
I also get lots of field bindweed (pink flowers) and hedge bindweed. I thought today that beans and bindweed look very alike. The stems are different though and you can only tell by close examination. Gently tugging on bindweed brings up the thick white roots.
Asked the OH who did some weeding the other day and confirmed they had quite thick white roots. Bah. What a shame!
In that case I would expect bindweed.. Sorry for getting your hopes up.
No it's ok! I think we will just pull everything up that looks remotely weed-like. We left it for a week or so while we had some 'us' time away from gardening, and they've swamped the lettuces we had sewn, it won't take much to weed it all and sew some more and be a tad more vigilant! The front garden is pretty much taken up with broccoli in little pots too, so maybe we'll put them in there instead. The world is our oyster as they say!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.