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DOCKS

Giving them all a FIVE!! they  all seem to be on the increase -  Marestail, Couch, DANDELION  and DOCK and whatever that creepiong buttercup thing is!! But still I tell myself "What is life without a challenge?" - please, please someone tell me it is all worthwhile and I haven't wasted 20 years of my life fighting a losing battle!!! Please!!!

Trixie - yet again you have hit a raw nerve!! ;) ;D

Dandelion,  Rosebay Willow-herb, Couch, Dock, Horseradish are the worst on my plot, in that order.

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on April 01, 2006, 21:22:26
And here I am about to plant horseradish!

Oh Robert - don't! Put it in a big pot, old dustbin, whatever, but you'll regret it if you put it in the ground :)

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on April 01, 2006, 21:22:26
And here I am about to plant horseradish!

And here am I about to plant nettles - as a crop and compost activator! what are we like robert ;)

;D ;D ;D

That's what I'm going to do, don't worry. I do the same with mint.

Bindweed   >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

Having dug the entire plot to sub-soil level (Yes, sub-soil level !) and moving it all forward about 3 feet (got lots of strange looks from other plotters) and inspected every shovel load for roots. IT STILL COMES BACK !!!!!!

No-one's yet mentioned Japanese Knotweed......well, I am :'( :'(

The biggest thug, even bigger than the knotweed, in my garden, tho, is the bloke next door's rubbish, shards of broken greenhouse glass and odd bits of wire to tangle round the blades of the mower a speciality. The other week, tho, he excelled himself.....in the middle of a shrubbery, where it had obviously landed with some force judging by the snapped branches, etc., was........a long-handled pickaxe! Thought of returning it to him gift-wrapped with a pink bow, embedded  into his thick skull...

Top three for me at the moment are...

• Bindweed  >:( >:( >:(
• Chickweed  >:( >:(
• Meadow Grass >:(

John

Quote from: Trixiebelle on April 01, 2006, 14:06:20
I’d rather roll around naked in a patch of nettles than have to dig up ONE MORE OF THESE ATROCIOUS WEEDS.

I might be able to put some work your way with some er...... artistic film people I know. ;D ;D ;D

They'll need a wide-angled lens Pete  ;D

Quote from: jennym on April 02, 2006, 00:33:32
Dandelion,  Rosebay Willow-herb, Couch, Dock, Horseradish are the worst on my plot, in that order.

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on April 01, 2006, 21:22:26
And here I am about to plant horseradish!

Oh Robert - don't! Put it in a big pot, old dustbin, whatever, but you'll regret it if you put it in the ground :)

hahaha, I planted some in my garden and managed to kill it...perhaps that was a good thing afterall then ;D ;D

i WANT horseradish!, anyone want to off load some on to me?

:-*

Trouble is it's so hard to dig up.. ;D ;D ;D

I can't see the weeds for the couch grass  ;D

if you don't dig it you might as well get rid of it. If you can!

Nice one Robert  ;D

I don't have too much trouble with most of the common weeds in my garden - I get a lot of fat hen, speedwell, dandelions etc, but they come out pretty easily when small.

The biggest problem for me doesn't even have a name, as far as I'm aware. It looks quite pretty - producing small white bluebell-like flowers from January to May and has pleasant looking grassy leaves. Or so I thought in the first couple of years in the garden. Now it grows everywhere. Spreads like mad and keeps popping up where I least expect it. I keep pulling it up (which is good as it adds to the compost) but it keeps on coming.

brambles, bindweed, nettles, field grass..

do forget-me-nots count? they've taken over my garden at home >:( >:( >:( >:(

I've just planted some forget-me-nots ... and daisies!!!!

aquilegia, i reckon i know what you've got, they're like snowdrops but multi headed, they lovely, my mums got them in her front garden, but like bluebells they just keep multi-plying, can't remember the name of them though