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Weed Identification
Hass123456
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Dear Forum,
I recently dug up my small garden and waited for several weeks before seeding. Patiently pulling up what few weeds grew back. About 2 weeks after seeding (and coming home from holiday), my garden was full of weeds. There are maybe 3 or 4 types, but one is growing in abundance.
I cannot figure out what they are (or how to treat them). The high quantity weed pulls up easily, but it is too hard to do so without ripping up the new grass as well.
Can anyone tell me what I have growing please?
Thank you
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If this is a newly seeded lawn, you will get rid of them when you mow it.
It's hard to tell from the photo, but am wondering if they are cowslips?
If the ones with the rounded leaves are slightly furry, they could be foxgloves.
Thanks.
Yes this is a newly seeded lawn. Here is another picture of the weeds I've just pulled up.
They don't look furry; I just can't think what they are - unless they are not a weed as we know it. Something cultivated perhaps?
I've a horrid feeling they might be comfrey http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.beansandherbs.co.uk/thumbnails/HERBS/COMFREY-image-for-comfrey-p.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.beansandherbs.co.uk/comfrey.htm&h=187&w=250&sz=14&tbnid=VKGAwGHUO5uPLM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&zoom=1&usg=__EEr8v8ui-IkQM7jXX971rWMqQ00=&docid=k6t6ZJF9hbL8AM&sa=X&ei=NEaRUbOUIbCX0QXfw4CgCw&ved=0CGwQ9QEwBg&dur=157
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm not sure they are as textured as comfrey.
and comphrey leaves are more pointed than that.
Do they pull out easily with the roots intact Hass?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Mmmm, sometimes the young leaves are quite rounded - look at the pic on the link
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They are rounded. Mine don't look like that, any of them (3 species)
In the sticks near Peterborough