On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:05:49 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote:


"Rob Simpson" wrote in message
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See
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...t=d irectlink

This is the second garden where I have experienced these small, green
plants growing, in a tightly-clustered way, around small fruit such as
raspberries and red/white/black currents.
Often they are even tighter together than this photo shows.
Anyone - what are they?
(I never let them get big enough to be able to take a photo of any
flower.)

Second question, since glyphosate is absorbed by leaves (and not by woody
material), is it safe to spray them with glyphosate and not damage the
fruit bushes ?
Thanks to and for this active group.

They look a bit like broadleafed willowherb. I get them but just pull them
up.
I'd be more worried about what is popping up to the left of it -
suspiciously like ground elder.

I was thinking willowherb but the leaves look too shiny to me but,
either way, something to be got rid of. The plantlet to the left looks
more like a baby raspberry cane popping out of the ground than ground
elder.

If spraying with glyphosate, remember that the spray can rebound or
get carried by the slightest puff of breeze. Although it won't
penetrate wood, it can affect leaves. When spraying anywhere near
green growth I want to keep, I use a 2 or 3 litre pop bottle with the
bottom cut off. Place the bottle over the weed to be killed and poke
the nozzle of the sprayer through the hole at the top and spray away.
Everything around is protected though watch for any spray run-off
dripping from the inside of the bottle as you lift/carry it elsewhere.

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling happily from the east end of the totally
dry and sunny Swansea Bay.