Your history with weeds
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Topic: Your history with weeds
Posted By: Dean
Subject: Your history with weeds
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 09:26
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And whyknot. ------------- What? |
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 12:02
| Japanese knotweed, virtually impossible to eradicate and totally invasive. Bindweed, not as invasive but I hate when it gets on the raspberries. All i do is cut it at the point it comes out of the ground because if you try to pull it off the berries it ends up stripping the berries off. I guess you did not mention the most invasive of all, kudzu. Another scourge in my garden is buttercups. Another nasty one is yellow dock, with roots about a foot long they have to be dug out. I also have some scourges I mistakenly planted myself, horseradish, I do not like you anymore. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 12:09
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Ragweed pollen does hell for my allergies.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 12:29
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Kudzu is practically unknown in the UK and didn't end in -weed so it didn't fit my list. I did forget Blanket-weed, which is an algae not a plant but does invade my pond every year. There are a number of weeds in my garden I could live without - nettles, wild strawberries, brambles and dandelions but all of those are edible if I were of a mind to. Then I have kind of scientific respect for dandelions after I read that the trees on the Galapagos Islands are evolved dandelions - somehow the tenacious little buggers growing in my lawn seem puny in comparison to a 20m tree. ------------- What? |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 12:35
| Dandelions don't bother me at all. Fortunately we do not have kudzu here either. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 12:38
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Kudzu is EVERYWHERE around here.
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 12:44
Maybe it is in Washington state but I have never seen it nor do I want to
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HolyMoly wrote:Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 12:48
Other.  ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 13:04
| Other. [eyeballs out] |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 13:45
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Invasive weeds? Sounds like something I'd enjoy sticking in my pipe. I do however believe there is a usage of virtually every plant out there. Nature finds a way to please your garden, even if it looks messy. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 15:00
Had to go with the Giant Hogweed.  ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 15:00
| The stuff in the Mediteranean sea, Caulerpia Toxifolia. |
Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 18:22
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I've been troubled with many weeds in my former garden. I don't know any of their names
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: January 14 2013 at 19:27
| Does quackgrass count? |
Posted By: Kirillov
Date Posted: January 15 2013 at 07:57
| My garden's full of the blighters |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 15 2013 at 08:20
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Sometimes I see some Giant Hogweed growing within a mile from my home. Janjaweed are not found in the part of the world where I live. ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: January 15 2013 at 10:23
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Jap Knotweed and Hogweed.... Though I'm not familiar with all of the english names, I'm sure I've encountered most
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Some more: poison ivy (in Canada) and nettles (very invasive, but fairly easy to get rid of, if you pull close to the base of the stem to get the rhizome out as much as posible ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 02:59
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Milkweed, hideous.
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 10:55
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Chickweed's a huge problem for serious lawn owners in the Delaware Valley. I don't have a lawn, but I used to work for a lawncare company so I had to deal with it frequently.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 11:09
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Some species of chickweed are edible - the problem with plants is while some are edible it does follow from that unhelpful but otherwise innocuous statement that some are not, and from those that are not edible the reason why they are not is often unclear - it could be that they taste bitter, it could be they taste wonderful but kill you.
I forgot to add sticky weed to the list - not sure whether that's its real name or not - it's a creeper with little hooked hairs on the stems and leaves that kids stick to each other's backs - harmless fun except if your wearing shorts where it can leave an unpleasant rash if you get tangled up in it. I think we call it goosegrass here. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 17 2013 at 17:15
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Kudzu seldom grows on my wintermelon. Japanese knotweed sounds like a pain though. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: January 22 2013 at 14:48
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Chickweed and crab grass are my big lawn problems. But voted ragweed, because I'm allergic to ragweed pollen (usually peaks late summer/early fall here).
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: January 22 2013 at 15:06
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I could've voted for ragweed as I'm allergic, or for giant hogweed just because. Instead I voted other for "dickweed". ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |