Is this the most annoying weed?

rhiwfield

Not bindweed (got rid of most of that), himalayan honeysuckle is a pain, so are buttercups and bramble. But procumbent pearlwort is a tiny mat plant that seeds liike mad and grows on our raised beds until they look a bit like a canal with a blanket of canadian pond weed! And you can never get rid of it all

How can something so small be such a pest?

A_Clock

I've got Lesser celandine! Its alot worse than that, only grows for a few months then dies off, till next year. To make matters worse the little root bulb thing it grows from is a quarter size of a finger nail

Solomon_Broad

Get some goats in to eat it all. Do it a few times and it won't be able to set seed.

rhiwfield

A_Clock wrote: »

I've got Lesser celandine! Its alot worse than that, only grows for a few months then dies off, till next year. To make matters worse the little root bulb thing it grows from is a quarter size of a finger nail

But its got those lovely yellow flowers that open in the early spring sun! I'll accept that its persistent but its more cheerful than annoying

A_Clock

rhiwfield wrote: »

But its got those lovely yellow flowers that open in the early spring sun! I'll accept that its persistent but its more cheerful than annoying

I'll gladly swap

linni

We've got horsetail and have been trying to get rid of it for years. Seems to be invincable. Tried Glyphosphate and still comes up.

mum_of_4

yep horsetail/mairstale - nightmare

I just crop the tops off as they appear. The only good thing to remember is they don't strangle the roots of the veg so things keep growing.

susieb

We have got horse radish, which is all in my lawn and every where, it comes from the riverbank nearby and we just cant kill it.

A_Clock

linni wrote: »

We've got horsetail and have been trying to get rid of it for years. Seems to be invincable. Tried Glyphosphate and still comes up.

Mowing it is meant to work after a few years, or just keep chopping it

Jolaaled

in my garden, it's the bindweed that seems to take over...anyone know of tried and tested methods of get rid of it FINALLY!!

amcluesent

>anyone know of tried and tested methods of get rid of it<

Let it spiral up canes then spray with glyphosate based weed-killer.