Does anyone have a weed free garden? I keep hoeing mine as they appear
and certainly before they get to seed but there must be a huge number of
seeds already in the soil. After a good shower of rain a blanket of them
always appears. Mainly chickweed. I've heard the old saying "One years
seeds seven years weeds". Has anyone had a long established garden that
is now weed free?

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David in Normandy wrote:
Does anyone have a weed free garden? I keep hoeing mine as they appear
and certainly before they get to seed but there must be a huge number
of seeds already in the soil. After a good shower of rain a blanket
of them always appears. Mainly chickweed. I've heard the old saying
"One years seeds seven years weeds". Has anyone had a long
established garden that is now weed free?

Mine's the same. A couple of days rain and it turns into a weed garden with
the odd plant poking through.

The number of seeds "in the system" must be enormous.


Ian

On 05/06/2010 12:38, David in Normandy wrote:
Does anyone have a weed free garden? I keep hoeing mine as they appear
and certainly before they get to seed but there must be a huge number of
seeds already in the soil. After a good shower of rain a blanket of them
always appears. Mainly chickweed. I've heard the old saying "One years
seeds seven years weeds". Has anyone had a long established garden that
is now weed free?


Immpossible! Because, not only are there the weeds that blow in from
over the fields and are dropped by the birds but there are all the
'weeds' I've introduced myself - before I knew better, or in some cases
just because I like them........ the aquilegia (now reverted to mucky
pink), the Alchemilla mollis, the poached egg plant, the Welsh poppies,
the celandines, the grape hyacinths (think I might just have won that
battle!), the creeping jenny.
Anyone else got a plant that they really wish they hadn't introduced?

On Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:56:54 +0100, Jill Bell
wrote:

On 05/06/2010 12:38, David in Normandy wrote:
Does anyone have a weed free garden? I keep hoeing mine as they appear
and certainly before they get to seed but there must be a huge number of
seeds already in the soil. After a good shower of rain a blanket of them
always appears. Mainly chickweed. I've heard the old saying "One years
seeds seven years weeds". Has anyone had a long established garden that
is now weed free?


Immpossible! Because, not only are there the weeds that blow in from
over the fields and are dropped by the birds but there are all the
'weeds' I've introduced myself - before I knew better, or in some cases
just because I like them........ the aquilegia (now reverted to mucky
pink), the Alchemilla mollis, the poached egg plant, the Welsh poppies,
the celandines, the grape hyacinths (think I might just have won that
battle!), the creeping jenny.
Anyone else got a plant that they really wish they hadn't introduced?

Pinks. An intrusive, spreading and unattractive persistant little
weed now.



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On 05/06/2010 13:56, Jill Bell wrote:

Anyone else got a plant that they really wish they hadn't introduced?


The spouse planted some "forget me nots" in her flower border near the
veg garden and they keep popping up all over the place in the veg garden
now. I definitely won't forget them.

An unlikely weed is asparagus! It is seeding itself freely all over the
garden now. I really must cut off the tops in Autumn *before* it sets
its orange coloured seeds. The tops from a previous year must have
survived composting and ended up distributed all over the garden.

There is always a sneaky weed (mainly chickweed) lost in between potato
plants too that sometimes runs to seed again before it is discovered.
Prolific little sods they are.

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Anyone else got a plant that they really wish they hadn't introduced?

Ragged robin, goosegrass, teasel ... etc.

Mary

Doesn't with dandelions. If it's not too late, choose something else for this year's purge!

Wood avens, Clematis montana, variegated ivy, Cotoneaster horizontalis.

On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 15:12:23 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

The message
from David in Normandy contains these words:

Does anyone have a weed free garden? I keep hoeing mine as they appear
and certainly before they get to seed but there must be a huge number of
seeds already in the soil. After a good shower of rain a blanket of them
always appears. Mainly chickweed. I've heard the old saying "One years
seeds seven years weeds". Has anyone had a long established garden that
is now weed free?

No, but I have managed to vastly reduce certain weeds. Each year I
choose one for The Purge, and focus on preventing it
seeding/propagating . This year it's the turn of dandelions, last year
was shepherds purse and the year before was plantain.
It does make a real difference to their ongoing populations in
subsequent years.


Janet.


I had a pogram on dandelions this year... obviously not enough of one
though.
I suspect it's time to start growing them to eat though ... that's
bound to kill them off


I haven't seen shepherds purse for years...
That probably means I've got a ton of it and just not noticed.

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Janet Baraclough wrote in
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The message
from David in Normandy contains these
words:

Does anyone have a weed free garden? I keep hoeing mine as they
appear and certainly before they get to seed but there must be a huge
number of seeds already in the soil. After a good shower of rain a
blanket of them always appears. Mainly chickweed. I've heard the old
saying "One years seeds seven years weeds". Has anyone had a long
established garden that is now weed free?

No, but I have managed to vastly reduce certain weeds. Each year I
choose one for The Purge, and focus on preventing it
seeding/propagating . This year it's the turn of dandelions, last
year was shepherds purse and the year before was plantain.
It does make a real difference to their ongoing populations in
subsequent years.


Janet.

Did you get rid of the Dandelion?
If so how did you do it?

I could not keep them down however I tried.

Regards
PtePike

Janet Baraclough wrote in
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The message
from David in Normandy contains these
words:

Does anyone have a weed free garden? I keep hoeing mine as they
appear and certainly before they get to seed but there must be a huge
number of seeds already in the soil. After a good shower of rain a
blanket of them always appears. Mainly chickweed. I've heard the old
saying "One years seeds seven years weeds". Has anyone had a long
established garden that is now weed free?

No, but I have managed to vastly reduce certain weeds. Each year I
choose one for The Purge, and focus on preventing it
seeding/propagating . This year it's the turn of dandelions, last
year was shepherds purse and the year before was plantain.
It does make a real difference to their ongoing populations in
subsequent years.


Janet.

Did you do any good against the dandelions?
If so how did you do it?
They are for me the BIGGEST pest in the weed catalouge.

Regards
PtePike

Janet Baraclough wrote in
:

The message
from David in Normandy contains these
words:

Does anyone have a weed free garden? I keep hoeing mine as they
appear and certainly before they get to seed but there must be a huge
number of seeds already in the soil. After a good shower of rain a
blanket of them always appears. Mainly chickweed. I've heard the old
saying "One years seeds seven years weeds". Has anyone had a long
established garden that is now weed free?

No, but I have managed to vastly reduce certain weeds. Each year I
choose one for The Purge, and focus on preventing it
seeding/propagating . This year it's the turn of dandelions, last
year was shepherds purse and the year before was plantain.
It does make a real difference to their ongoing populations in
subsequent years.


Janet.

Did you do any good against the dandelions?
If so how did you do it?
They are for me the BIGGEST pest in the weed catalouge.

Regards
PtePike

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Janet Baraclough wrote in
:

The message
from David in Normandy contains these
words:

Does anyone have a weed free garden? I keep hoeing mine as they
appear and certainly before they get to seed but there must be a huge
number of seeds already in the soil. After a good shower of rain a
blanket of them always appears. Mainly chickweed. I've heard the old
saying "One years seeds seven years weeds". Has anyone had a long
established garden that is now weed free?

No, but I have managed to vastly reduce certain weeds. Each year I
choose one for The Purge, and focus on preventing it
seeding/propagating . This year it's the turn of dandelions, last
year was shepherds purse and the year before was plantain.
It does make a real difference to their ongoing populations in
subsequent years.


Janet.

Did you do any good against the dandelions?
If so how did you do it?
They are for me the BIGGEST pest in the weed catalouge.

Regards
PtePike


Please excuse the 3 replies to threads on the same subject, it was an error
with my brain(it didn't test drive too well) today.

We all get old!
PtePike

Janet Baraclough wrote in
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I have a hand tool like a long screwdriver with a vee shaped prong
on the end; slide it down under the rosette of leaves and slice through
the taproot deep down well below soil level.
Pick up corpse and dispose. Takes longer to type than it does to do.
Don;t leave any dead flowers lying about (or compost the flowers)
because they can turn to seedheads even in death.

Janet.

I have one of those tools but was told that no matter how deep we pull them
they will grow again.

If you have had success I am going to go with it.

And I like your idea....target one weed one year.

Still have to weed though but a concerted effort on one bugger sounds good
and I am going to give it a go, nothing else seems to work.

Regards
PtePike

"Jill Bell" wrote
Anyone else got a plant that they really wish they hadn't introduced?

Spanish bluebells.

My only excuse is that at the time I was lead to believe they were
native ones, but now I know better having seen the real deal in flower
along Cornish lanes.

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Sue