Your Top 5 Worst Weeds

Dandelions
Dog ( the real type )
Nettles
Creeping weeds any
Quick growing grass

 

I had bind weed in a neighbours garden that was growing all over my back fence and yew, so I sprayed weed killer over as many leaves as I could including the any on the yew.
Well after about 3 weeks I noticed that the leaves on the weed started to shrivel, upto now there is no sign of and weed at all

 

Ok ...... I have so many.... but what are the worst.....

Nettles... just hate them as you can still feel where they have stung you for hours later

Wild Brambles....and they grow back into the ground! ready to trip you up......

Ground elder.... I did offer everyone from GC to come for tea to help me munch through it all


look a very healthy 3 course dinner Mr AB is quiet accustomed to it now

He gets it for breakfast too and just to finish the day I've found a recipe for ground elder wine.... and its rose....

And lastly...... Ivy..... I think one of the last owners had a fetish for Ivy of every colour and species, its everywhere and a blinking nuisance

 

Dog.. aww! I used to have choc lab she was mental, ruined my lawn.
And why the hate for brambles? Make lovely pies out of them!

 

My lawn was grown out of a jungle, but is now grass, with sods taken from else where to cover bare patches.
As such I have a wonderful crop of yellow dandelions early on, then a wonderful crop of clover mixed in is 2 types of grass.
One light green the other dark green, only solution is to rip it all out and reseed or landscape.

Can't see a cheep option in either of these, as I can't do either without help

 

I had to google bindweed because I didn't know what it is. I have seen something that looks like that growing wild up telephone poles but never in my garden.

Dandelions - from next door and the open areas
Wild violets - from god knows where
Nettles - from next door
Crab grass

 

All of them as I cant seem to get rid of them no matter what I do .
So now I'm putting down weed proof membrane and bark chippings then if the dreaded weeds coming back it easier to deweed with any luck

 

1) Annual Meadow Grass.
2) Switch Grass.
3) Ordinary Grass.
4) Hairy Bittercress.
5) Dandelions.

As you can see, grass is by far the most invasive weed. (I blame farmers and people who have lawns!)

 

All creep in from next door --
Nettles, Ground Elder, Willow Herb (fire weed), Brambles, Bindweed.

 

Currently waging a war on dandelions and self heal in the lawn and borders full of couch grass where Montbretia had been allowed to spread. I fact the Montbretia is now an enemy come to mention it. Yards and yards of it and next to no flowers

Ivy.

Thats my 5 at the moment

 

Just putting in an honourable mention for a few which I've done battle with over the years.

Two of my most pernicious weeds, with similar names but not related are Creeping Woodsorrel (Oxalis Corniculata) and Sheep Sorrel (Rumex acetosella). They thrive in my dry, sandy soil and they're small enough to hide away amongst other plants while insidiously spreading themselves over a wide area surprisingly quickly.

Another one, which thrives where most other weeds dare not venture is Common Pearlwort (Sagina procumbens). This little pest can colonise even the most seemingly inhospitable area of block paving or even the top of a brick wall and will hold on tenaciously, defeating all attempts at removal.

Hairy Bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta) has already been mentioned, every time it goes 'ping' you know it'll be back with a vengeance next year.

Last but not least, Chickweed thrives in my soil. It can carry on growing in the depths of winter, is equally happy on bare soil or hidden away under the brassicas and will regrow from the tiniest fragment after hoeing ... but at least the hens enjoy it.

All great survivors which I've had to learn to live with, you have to admire them really.

 

You mentioned Hairy Bittercress....

That stuff is EVERYWHERE at the moment. It seems to thrive best in damp conditions, which may explain it prevalence in many of my customers' gardens - but I have a feeling that once it is there, it is there for good.

I do hope not as it goes from a seedling to an exploding seeder in about 10 days for much for the year. The stuff drives me mad as many jobs are fortnighters, so it's done its wicked deeds between visits and there's naff all you can do about it. Bark chippings help suppress the worst infestations but not everyone wants them.

 

Mine are
Couch grass
Bindweed
Creeping buttercup
Nettles
Dandelions