Weed identification needed

**Alice** · 09-06-2006, 10:20 PM

Can't tell without a picture Jan, but it could be couch grass. Try that under your weed identification.

**Jersey Jan** · 09-06-2006, 10:27 PM

Thanks Alice, Will try and get a pic tomorrow

**sewer rat** · 10-06-2006, 02:14 PM

I'm with Alice - from your description - and from the name you've given it - I would say it's probably couch grass but a piccie would confirm this.

**Jersey Jan** · 10-06-2006, 10:49 PM

Sorry guys didn't get up to the garden today (it's 10 min walk away up on a high terrace behind a church - used to be the vicar's garden) but have had a look on Google images at couch grass and it's deffo not that. Couch spreads by rhizomes and although I have got a small amount of that pesky stuff the one I'm on about is different - much broader leaves and the roots are in a huge clump underneath each plant, but not joined to any other plants underground. When fully grown they turn into a raised clump of broad-leaved grass and I think as well as setting seed they also grow strange brown blobby things off the roots which are some kind of bulbs.

**Alice** · 11-06-2006, 01:01 PM

Will you post a pic if you can Jan. Your garden sounds interesting. Have posted this pic of a plantain. Does your weed look like that. If it is plantains you have they die very quickly if you put some weed killer on them.

**charliefred** · 11-06-2006, 08:18 PM

You might be suffering from the dreaded horseradish!!!!!!!

If it is, send us some.

**Alice** · 11-06-2006, 09:26 PM

This is horseradish Jan, but don't really think it sounds like what you've got. Think we better have pic to get anywhere.

**Jersey Jan** · 12-06-2006, 05:38 PM

Only managed to get up to garden briefly today as daughter at home ill, but forgot to take the camera - sorry!
Made good use of time by averting eyes from rampaging weeds and instead digging up nice Jersey Royals, and picked mint, spinach (about to bolt), lettuce and 2 handfuls of the first strawberries this year. That has the makings of dinner then....

**Alice** · 12-06-2006, 10:50 PM

Sounds a bit like Ready, Steady, Cook! Sure it was delicious whatever it was. I could go for Jersey Royals all by themselves. A litlte ( no great big) bit of butter ( blow the cholesterol) and what else could a girl want !

**Jersey Jan** · 13-06-2006, 02:52 PM

If I have done this correctly this is a pic at last!
I should have put a ruler next to it but without the roots the small one is about one inch high and the biggest about 5 in - any ideas?

**Birdie Wife** · 13-06-2006, 04:05 PM

The closest thing to that in my grasses book is field woodrush, the size is about right and it does seem to have quite chunky roots. It's a native, but I wouldn't rule out something more exotic, given where you live!

Hope this helps...

**Jersey Jan** · 13-06-2006, 05:19 PM

Thanks for that, although the biggest one is a mere babe compared to the size they grow to if left undug - that's just the biggest I've got at the moment.
I managed to clear an onion bed and my sweetcorn today of the little devils, so only another couple of weeks of weeding left to do! Unfortunately I can't use weedkiller as I am growing organically and also they are right in with all my crops so although I tried hoeing them the only way is with a small fork and a lot of scrabbling!

**ugly gourd** · 17-08-2006, 07:00 PM

I think this is willow weed does it have a bright red root if it is its similar to bind weed very deep rooted Ive got it on my allotment and normally walk behind the plough with a bucket picking it out you also see it growing on the river banks and in ditches with a lovely pink flower but its a b****r on the lottie

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