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  • Good year for goosegrass - Galium aparine

    Blimey... seems to be a good (v. Bad) year for goosegrass. Hedges at the plot are full of the stuff and it had a chokehold on one hedge at the back of the garden - no longer as that's how I've been celebrating Easter...
    I need a new mattress, so might use the bleddy stuff for stuffing one.
    Anyone else seeing more than usual amounts of it and is it worth drowning/composting?
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    1574 gin and tonics please Monica, large ones.

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    It seems to be the only weed that hasn’t been affected by the dose of weed killer I gave it 10 days ago. Some weeds were wilted bu now seem to be recovering so another dose is needed.
    "I prefer rogues to imbeciles as they sometimes take a rest" (Alexander Dumas)
    "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live" (also Alexandre Dumas)
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    • #3
      Goosegrass/cleavers has many uses, can be eaten as a green vegetable or used to make a coffee substitute.
      Baldy, tell people you're growing it for those reasons and they'll be impressed.

      http://www.eattheweeds.com/galium-ap...n-the-loose-2/

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      • #4
        I was contemplating using it as a substitute for 'Camp Coffee' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Coffee
        Last edited by Baldy; 21-04-2019, 07:12 PM.
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        1574 gin and tonics please Monica, large ones.

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        • #5
          I hate that stuff, makes me all itchy. Sticks to me, sticks to the dogs. I bash it down near paths wherever I see it. Which reminds me: I haven't seen any for a couple of years. Too dry, maybe?
          Last edited by Snoop Puss; 22-04-2019, 09:12 AM.

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          • #6
            We get it every year and it's a real pain to hoe because the stem is quite wiry so it won't cut easily and it just re-grows. I must admit to enjoying pulling it out at the root because it's amazing how much there is of it that hides amongst other plants.
            I work very hard so please don't expect me to think as well!

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            • #7
              Oh so that's what goosegrass is! I always knew it as stickyweed when I was a kid :P

              I've got a patch of it sprouting up right on the front boundary of my front garden that I need to do something about, I keep forgetting about it when I'm actually out in the garden though XD

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