Thank you Fairygirl, Yes they do look similar don't they. I will wait a couple of weeks and upload a photo again, By then they should have matured into a more easily indentifiable weed or plant?..Thank you everyone for your help
If you have a large amount of top-soil, you are going to be very busy microwaving it bowl by bowlful. Can you not hoe it very regularly until all the weeds have germinated?
There are loads of trees and large plants within 50 feet of my 8 foot back garden fence, The only thing I find is , that all the weeds are the same in appearence. I haven't found anything within that radius that looks like my photos.. I still go with the suggestion of Cow Parsley by addict. But, The closest that is to me is approx 1 mile away. I do think that it came with the top soil I bought, As the builders yard / supplier told me that it hadn't been sterilized and was screened as dug.. I was only told this after cutting my thumb open on a broken bottle neck while I sieved it & then brought my thumb to their attention. So I think as I said before, They came with the soil. Welshonion, I agree.. I would be busy. I will probably take the soil out section by section and get a finer sieve to re-sieve it.. But only after all the seeds have grown enough.. not to fall through the finer sieve...lol. All good fun. I need to stop it though because as far as cow parsley goes.. most people say it's toxic for tortoises.
I have checked the remaining untouched top soil that I have in storage in a wheelie bin that I haven't even sieved yet, And it has weeds of the same type growing in it, Even with the wheelie bin lid being closed. The top soil in my garden borders that contain loads of the weed /plant won't go to waste. I will take it back out bit by bit and sterilize it as I mentioned above earlier, But I will mix it 50% topsoil to 50% Childrens Play sand to use it as substrate for my tortoise's in their tortoise table ( Not Vivarium as not Suitable for tortoises). Then once their substrate requires changing, I will then return it to a different part of my garden. A good way of recycling it. I will upload a photo shortly to see if the weed / plant can be identified again once it has grown larger. Thanks again
I think welshonion's suggestion is probably the quickest and easiest method of solving the problem Kevin. It's very frustrating when this happens but you'll get round it somehow!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes Fairygirl, I could try Welshonion's suggestion as a first method. My wife & I will have to take at least some of the soil back out of the border / Tortoise run due to having coleus planted along a section of it. The last time we planted Coleus the slugs and snails thought it was their feeding time.. So We will removed a section of the border / Tortoise run top soil and replace it with a 15-20mm rough gravel to place around the Coleus, As I believe Slugs and Snails don't like rough / pointy objects. I can't use slug pellets, Due to my Tortoises. I wonder if this slug problem can be commented on.. My wife & I used to have a very small section of soil a few years back (before my Tortoise's) in which we planted vegetable's.. We surrounded the entire outside edge of this plot with Slug pellets... But they still ate the plants and were found in the plot... do slugs pole vault or are they ninja's...lol
LOL would be great to watch if they could No unfortunately the little grey slugs that do the real damage to plants (not the big ones that everyone thinks) live in the soil and tunnel through.
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The little Icelandic poppies look quite like that when they first emerge adn they seed like mad so that's a possibility too Kevin.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thank you Fairygirl, Yes they do look similar don't they. I will wait a couple of weeks and upload a photo again, By then they should have matured into a more easily indentifiable weed or plant?..Thank you everyone for your help
If you have a large amount of top-soil, you are going to be very busy microwaving it bowl by bowlful. Can you not hoe it very regularly until all the weeds have germinated?
Has any garden near by got any trees? or large plants that could of self seeded?
There are loads of trees and large plants within 50 feet of my 8 foot back garden fence, The only thing I find is , that all the weeds are the same in appearence. I haven't found anything within that radius that looks like my photos.. I still go with the suggestion of Cow Parsley by addict. But, The closest that is to me is approx 1 mile away. I do think that it came with the top soil I bought, As the builders yard / supplier told me that it hadn't been sterilized and was screened as dug.. I was only told this after cutting my thumb open on a broken bottle neck while I sieved it & then brought my thumb to their attention. So I think as I said before, They came with the soil. Welshonion, I agree.. I would be busy. I will probably take the soil out section by section and get a finer sieve to re-sieve it.. But only after all the seeds have grown enough.. not to fall through the finer sieve...lol. All good fun. I need to stop it though because as far as cow parsley goes.. most people say it's toxic for tortoises.
I have checked the remaining untouched top soil that I have in storage in a wheelie bin that I haven't even sieved yet, And it has weeds of the same type growing in it, Even with the wheelie bin lid being closed. The top soil in my garden borders that contain loads of the weed /plant won't go to waste. I will take it back out bit by bit and sterilize it as I mentioned above earlier, But I will mix it 50% topsoil to 50% Childrens Play sand to use it as substrate for my tortoise's in their tortoise table ( Not Vivarium as not Suitable for tortoises). Then once their substrate requires changing, I will then return it to a different part of my garden. A good way of recycling it. I will upload a photo shortly to see if the weed / plant can be identified again once it has grown larger. Thanks again
I think welshonion's suggestion is probably the quickest and easiest method of solving the problem Kevin. It's very frustrating when this happens but you'll get round it somehow!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes Fairygirl, I could try Welshonion's suggestion as a first method. My wife & I will have to take at least some of the soil back out of the border / Tortoise run due to having coleus planted along a section of it. The last time we planted Coleus the slugs and snails thought it was their feeding time.. So We will removed a section of the border / Tortoise run top soil and replace it with a 15-20mm rough gravel to place around the Coleus, As I believe Slugs and Snails don't like rough / pointy objects. I can't use slug pellets, Due to my Tortoises. I wonder if this slug problem can be commented on.. My wife & I used to have a very small section of soil a few years back (before my Tortoise's) in which we planted vegetable's.. We surrounded the entire outside edge of this plot with Slug pellets... But they still ate the plants and were found in the plot... do slugs pole vault or are they ninja's...lol
LOL would be great to watch if they could
No unfortunately the little grey slugs that do the real damage to plants (not the big ones that everyone thinks) live in the soil and tunnel through.
Hi again, Here is the weed / plant now it has grown up a bit... are we still going with Cow Parsley or has anyone got any new ideas.