you could try emailing a bamboo grower specialist, they would probably know. I love bamboo but have them in pots, never wanted to contemplate what you are having to deal with
I'm still battling the bamboo, but it is definitely sprouting less than it was a few months ago. I'm hoping that means it is slowly running out of energy - but it could equally be because the weather has been so bad.
Every time I see a shoot I chop it off. The plant can't live forever if it gets no sun energy... Surely!
Cleavers, or Catchweed, Goosegrass (Galium aparine). My back garden has a beech hedge around it and backs onto 3 other gardens. Those neighbours gardens are mostly neglected and this plant has really taken hold and bursts through the hedge.
I spend an inordinate amount time trying to keep it under control, trying to kill most of it before it seeds.
Ah Goosegrass! So that's what it's called. I have loads of the stuff growing in my front hedge. It grows so quickly.
Only good thing is it is easy to pull out - and quite satisfying to put big piles of it on the compost heap. In retrospect perhaps I shouldn't be putting it on the compost...
Ground elder, without doubt ground elder I have done my nut digging that stuff up this year but I do finally seem to have won the war on bindweed, whilst it still pops up now and then it is no longer a problem.
Ivy you can keep that and also buttercups, hell to get rid of and spread like wildfire. I once nurtured a patch of it mistakenly thinking it was a form of perennial geranium until it flowered then it was murder to get rid of.
As for japanese anenome in my garden it is a delicate little flower that threatens to die on me every 5 minutes unless I water it and pamper it all the time with plant food. It clearly does not enjoy clay shade.
I sprayed mine earlier this year. It was all down one side of the garden including under the hedge. Maybe it will come back next year but as far as I can tell it is all dead.
Brambles at the moment although I've had to wage war on ground elder and bindweed in the past and I'm now down to the odd skirmish with them.
The bramble roots are in next door's front garden but it/they have climbed up through their giant fir tree and are cascading down my side. They grab at me and scratch me when I'm mowing down that side and keep trying to take root in my garden. I've got no chance of ever getting at the roots to deal with them so I guess I'm on a loser .
I didn't dominoman, I rarely use weedkillers now except on plantains I just keep digging it up in the hopes that it will eventually get the message like the bindweed. It does seem to be less.
Unfortunately my next door neighbour let's his garden run wild and his side of the fence is overun with ground elder, it is all over his garden so I can't get rid of the source.
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Try sbk brush weed killer works everytime
you could try emailing a bamboo grower specialist, they would probably know. I love bamboo but have them in pots, never wanted to contemplate what you are having to deal with
I'm still battling the bamboo, but it is definitely sprouting less than it was a few months ago. I'm hoping that means it is slowly running out of energy - but it could equally be because the weather has been so bad.
Every time I see a shoot I chop it off. The plant can't live forever if it gets no sun energy... Surely!
Cleavers, or Catchweed, Goosegrass (Galium aparine). My back garden has a beech hedge around it and backs onto 3 other gardens. Those neighbours gardens are mostly neglected and this plant has really taken hold and bursts through the hedge.
I spend an inordinate amount time trying to keep it under control, trying to kill most of it before it seeds.
Ah Goosegrass! So that's what it's called. I have loads of the stuff growing in my front hedge. It grows so quickly.
Only good thing is it is easy to pull out - and quite satisfying to put big piles of it on the compost heap. In retrospect perhaps I shouldn't be putting it on the compost...
Ground elder, without doubt ground elder I have done my nut digging that stuff up this year but I do finally seem to have won the war on bindweed, whilst it still pops up now and then it is no longer a problem.
Ivy you can keep that and also buttercups, hell to get rid of and spread like wildfire. I once nurtured a patch of it mistakenly thinking it was a form of perennial geranium until it flowered then it was murder to get rid of.
As for japanese anenome in my garden it is a delicate little flower that threatens to die on me every 5 minutes unless I water it and pamper it all the time with plant food. It clearly does not enjoy clay shade.
Lou - Do you use weedkiller on the ground elder?
I sprayed mine earlier this year. It was all down one side of the garden including under the hedge. Maybe it will come back next year but as far as I can tell it is all dead.
Brambles at the moment although I've had to wage war on ground elder and bindweed in the past and I'm now down to the odd skirmish with them.
The bramble roots are in next door's front garden but it/they have climbed up through their giant fir tree and are cascading down my side. They grab at me and scratch me when I'm mowing down that side and keep trying to take root in my garden. I've got no chance of ever getting at the roots to deal with them so I guess I'm on a loser
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Speedwell and petty spurge are the worst things to have on a veg plot... It is impossible to get rid of them!
I didn't dominoman, I rarely use weedkillers now except on plantains I just keep digging it up in the hopes that it will eventually get the message like the bindweed. It does seem to be less.
Unfortunately my next door neighbour let's his garden run wild and his side of the fence is overun with ground elder, it is all over his garden so I can't get rid of the source.