Bindweed nettles sycamore seedlings and some sort of creeping climber all coming from a council flat next door to me. The nettles are 7 feet high and she moans about it tangling with her washing.i did suggest " cut em down love " but the look of disgust was laughable
And of course slugs and snails and aphids and .......!!!!! But in that order for sure!
Was worried when folks said that Japanese anenome as Dove gave me one when I started gardening, was this sabotage I was wondering!?!?! but it hasn't gone rampant, and I don't mind if it does, think its pretty! Phew!
Never plant alchemilla mollis however pretty you think it is! I thought I had finally rooted out the last bit of it, but seedlings still appear all over my garden and they are tenacious little blighters!
Horse/mares tails no problem, easily got rid off on my plot paths with Verdone, use only on the paths not were vegetables are grown!
Alchemilla mollis, glad someone else dislikes this total pest/weed,sometime ago I mentioned mollis and grape hyacinths as pure weeds, the response was immediate and spiteful so look out!
Thanks Jimmy, I'll keep quiet about it, except to say that I think it was Monty who once said it is no problem......"just cut off the blooms when they start to fade before seeding" Maybe I left it too late!
Montbretia - have removed about 4 wheelbarrow loads of corms so far this year & still more to go! Have bindweed, ground elder, docks, nettles, brambles, creeping buttercup, and many more!! In a rural area so to be expected & I actually quite like weeding.
I have found this so useful - particularly knowing about plants you might buy, like anemones which then take over.
I started gardening this year and before I started I had to dig out a garden full of bloody cranesbill with enormous root balls (not swearing - that's what they are called)
I'm also waging war on a Cape Fuschia Moonraker which travels from the lane behind out house. Might be a nice flower but needs somewhere else (bigger?) to grow. It sends out roots and then hundreds of shoots grow. As it is a rhizomatous plant - if you leave 1/4" piece in the ground it just starts sprouting. It is a complete nightmare - and sold in lots of Garden centres
I cut all the stalks to ground level. Filled empty hollows with glyphosate, and have resprayed the regrowth every week or so.
Four month's later and it seems more vigorous than ever. I have bamboo in my patio, coming through the garden steps, and between the fence and next door's patio. It seems more vigorous than ever!
Unfortunately cutting it down and digging around in the roots will probably just re-invigorate the plant. Are you using high strength glyphosate, the sort they use on knotweed? It wouldn't hurt to bruise the foliage prior to spraying.
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Has to be ground elder for me!
And of course slugs and snails and aphids and .......!!!!! But in that order for sure!
Was worried when folks said that Japanese anenome as Dove gave me one when I started gardening, was this sabotage I was wondering!?!?!
but it hasn't gone rampant, and I don't mind if it does, think its pretty! Phew! 
Never plant alchemilla mollis however pretty you think it is! I thought I had finally rooted out the last bit of it, but seedlings still appear all over my garden and they are tenacious little blighters!
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Chickweed it even outgrows the potato haulms.
Horse/mares tails no problem, easily got rid off on my plot paths with Verdone, use only on the paths not were vegetables are grown!
Alchemilla mollis, glad someone else dislikes this total pest/weed,sometime ago I mentioned mollis and grape hyacinths as pure weeds, the response was immediate and spiteful so look out!
Thanks Jimmy, I'll keep quiet about it, except to say that I think it was Monty who once said it is no problem......"just cut off the blooms when they start to fade before seeding" Maybe I left it too late!
Montbretia - have removed about 4 wheelbarrow loads of corms so far this year & still more to go! Have bindweed, ground elder, docks, nettles, brambles, creeping buttercup, and many more!! In a rural area so to be expected & I actually quite like weeding.
I have found this so useful - particularly knowing about plants you might buy, like anemones which then take over.
I started gardening this year and before I started I had to dig out a garden full of bloody cranesbill with enormous root balls (not swearing - that's what they are called)
I'm also waging war on a Cape Fuschia Moonraker which travels from the lane behind out house. Might be a nice flower but needs somewhere else (bigger?) to grow. It sends out roots and then hundreds of shoots grow. As it is a rhizomatous plant - if you leave 1/4" piece in the ground it just starts sprouting. It is a complete nightmare - and sold in lots of Garden centres
I'm finding waging war on weeds immensely satisfying!
Fortunately I have the luxury to be able to use weedkiller, as most of the small plants died years ago, and the ones I want to keep are taller.
Soon the hard digging will start.
This year already I have much less bindweed than I did at the same time last year.
I still don't feel I am winning on the bamboo.
I cut all the stalks to ground level. Filled empty hollows with glyphosate, and have resprayed the regrowth every week or so.
Four month's later and it seems more vigorous than ever. I have bamboo in my patio, coming through the garden steps, and between the fence and next door's patio. It seems more vigorous than ever!
Unfortunately cutting it down and digging around in the roots will probably just re-invigorate the plant. Are you using high strength glyphosate, the sort they use on knotweed? It wouldn't hurt to bruise the foliage prior to spraying.