Common weeds on your patch

[Flummery]

Just thought I'd leave you with this before I go off to soak(!) in the Lake District. What are your commonest weeds? I just wondered how different they are throughout the country. I get chickweed, a couple of small spurges - petty spurge and the lovely, slightly bigger sun spurge and scarlet pimpernell. I have known the latter for years as 'poor man's weatherglass'. This is because its flowers only open in the sun. To be honest I think it should be called 'thick man's weatherglass' because if you need to go round your garden checking on the flowering status of the weeds before you can tell it's a sunny day you are impoverished in more than the financial sense!

Oh yes, and too much bindweed!

Flum

[sewer rat]

oil seed rape, oil seed rape and oil seed rape !!

[shirlthegirl43]

Bindweed and goose grass (cleavers?) along with brambles and nettles and some other weeds which I don't know the names for and just try to pull out before they are big enough to identify! Oh, have a great holiday too.

[dexterdoglancashire]

Flummery - get yersen off for your hols chuck! and enjoy! Bernie PS want to see all your photos when you get back!

[Snadger]

Just thought I'd leave you with this before I go off to soak(!) in the Lake District. What are your commonest weeds? I just wondered how different they are throughout the country. I get chickweed, a couple of small spurges - petty spurge and the lovely, slightly bigger sun spurge and scarlet pimpernell. I have known the latter for years as 'poor man's weatherglass'. This is because its flowers only open in the sun. To be honest I think it should be called 'thick man's weatherglass' because if you need to go round your garden checking on the flowering status of the weeds before you can tell it's a sunny day you are impoverished in more than the financial sense!

Oh yes, and too much bindweed!

Flum

The biggest onions I ever grew were lost in a sea of chickweed! Good moisture retainer and the budgie loves it!

[Mrs Dobby]

Bindweed, thistles, nettle, mares tail, couch grass, goosegrass, brambles and raspberry! I think the only one we are actually on top of is the dandelions!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Chickweed, nettles (yes, I know they are supposed to make good feed/wine/soup and lor' knows what else but they are everywhere and they STING!

And something unidentified - all I know is that it is everywhere and I didn't sow it! Will try to take a pic tomorrow for you clever grapes to ID for me!

[bubblewrap]

Poppies Opium(3 or 4different varieties flowers)( I have some that grow to 5 feet tall) Californian, & normal ones. Plant with tiny blue flowers(speedwell I think) Oil seed rape(lots) Thistles (too many)Dandelions, Bind weed, Cooch Grass, & Raspberrys (where I don't want them)

[terrier]

Mainly nettles and docks. It seems that however many I pull up, there's always more hiding round the corner. I'm not very good at identifying all the different types of wild plants that try to grow where I havn't sown them, I call 'em all 'weeds'. I have heard of 'weed' gardens where gardeners actually encourage the things to grow properly either for their flowers or their food value and some of them (evidently) can be quite spectacular.

[Alice]

Bittercress ! I know it is an annual, but it will re grow from roots where they have just been hoed. It will seed in any month of the year and the life cycle is 4 to 6 weeks. It just springs up while your back is turned. Give me the pernicious perennials. I know how to deal with them. But this stuff - UGH!

[TPeers]

Scarlet Pimpernell, Ground Elder, Forget-Me-Not (wot I just forgot and had to ask TOH to name!) Raspberries and Borage I don't care if it's useful - I'm allergic!

First garden I've ever had with no bindweed! Which is tempting fate - but ground elder is possibly worse!

Oh and not exacly weeds but slugs and snails! The slugs are 6" long!!!!!!

Terry

[rustylady]

Bindweed, docks, brambles, mallow, and several others I have yet to identify. Oh, yes, nettles and horseradish too.

[Two_Sheds]

I have all the above except marestail. I can cope with all of them except for GRASS - I absolutely hate grass. Couch is coming up in my bark paths where its v.hard to get out. Annual meadow grass is worse in some ways because it comes up everywhere and just breaks off if I try to pull it.

[dexterdoglancashire]

I'm not sure about the weeds on my plot, I just dig 'em up! Does anyone know of a website that identifies weeds? Thanks Bernie
Actually have just found this website: www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk I've found it very useful!

[HappyMouffe]

Bindweed, couch grass (not experienced this before I got the allotment), ground elder (ditto), marestail - why oh why is this not an expensive delicacy? I'd make a fortune, bittercress, silverweed(?), docks, thistles and nettles. Plus a myriad of annuals that I don't recognise. And zillions of volunteer potatoes on the new plot.