Weed that you hate the most

[Beth_B]

Oh, this question resonates with me because I am the weeder on the flower farm. I am pretty certain that I am the only one who likes to do this task. I can spend hours listening to my music and weeding. Other spend about ten minutes with me and have had enough.

Claudine, you sound like you have such a sweet heart by allowing most of your weeds to be welcome in your garden. For us to allow this happen would be a big mess. Out int the field, the weeds will grow faster then the flowers starting to blossom. The weeds block the sun, take away the nutrients, and are a haven for snakes.

But, oh I hear you, when it comes to thistles! I always scream aloud, ouch! I am so thankful, right now, the thistle are young, thus no thorns, yet! I feel like I am in a race against time. Soon enough, they will be out in full force.

When I lived in Colorado I had a humungous thicket of Canadian thistle, so bad I got a nastygram from the city about their prevalence along the side yard. Apparently the roots can run twenty or more feet deep and any mechanical method of removing the buggers just made them come back three-fold.

I finally resorted to RoundUp which really worked, after several applications. I resist going the commercial chemical route but I didn't know what else to do.

My current lawn is an eclectic mix of grass, clover, wood violets and whatever but as long as its green I'm ok with it. That creeping charlie ground ivy is pernicious stuff though and it's a constant battle to keep it from overtaking the perennial and vegetable beds. I do some weeding just about every day.

 

[Scarlet]

Anything that stings or has prickles, or needs digging up. Last night I was trying to pull nettles up from the middle of a patch of brambles that we are keeping, very fiddly work if you don't want stinging.

 

[LIcenter]

Can't remember the last time I've seen a nettle growing in my area.

 

[Scarlet]

Come to the UK Llcenter, the place is covered! If less people used weed killer it would be very interesting.

Apparently the Romans used to beat their legs with nettles in order to keep themselves warm, its a shame the sting is worse in the summer!

 

[claudine]

Claudine, you sound like you have such a sweet heart by allowing most of your weeds to be welcome in your garden. For us to allow this happen would be a big mess. Out int the field, the weeds will grow faster then the flowers starting to blossom. The weeds block the sun, take away the nutrients, and are a haven for snakes.

Claudine, you are such a kind soul and a wonderful person. I agree with you on the nettles, they do hurt when you touch them. I used to get attacked by them all the time when I was young as we played in the woods a lot. I remember that they would first sting, and then I would get itchy bumps thereafter, mostly on my hands.

Thank you both, I don't know if I deserve such kind words, but I appreciate them very, very much
As for nettles, I really don't like them as plants, but I love drinking nettle tea

 

[IcyBC]

Can I have two weed that I hate the most? Mine is creeping Charlie and creeping Myrtle! They are taking over my yard and very hard to kill!

 

[Beth_B]

Come to the UK Llcenter, the place is covered! If less people used weed killer it would be very interesting.

Apparently the Romans used to beat their legs with nettles in order to keep themselves warm, its a shame the sting is worse in the summer!

Learn something new every day!

I spent many of my younger years and nettles are indeed horrible. I don't like the tea but we used to boil and steep nettles as a hair rinse.

Here we have poison ivy and poison oak. Luckily I'm one of those people immune to it. "Leaves of three, let it be."

 

[LIcenter]

Can I have two weed that I hate the most? Mine is creeping Charlie and creeping Myrtle! They are taking over my yard and very hard to kill!

I gonna need two also. I forgot about purslane, which started popping up in my beds on Sunday.

 

[Pat]

I don;t know the name of the weed that grows in my space but it is hard to get rid of the more I pull the more it holds on very long root system.

 

[Scarlet]

Learn something new every day!

I spent many of my younger years and nettles are indeed horrible. I don't like the tea but we used to boil and steep nettles as a hair rinse.

Here we have poison ivy and poison oak. Luckily I'm one of those people immune to it. "Leaves of three, let it be."

I'm glad I could teach you something

Have you tried nettle tea with blackberry? I think the company Twinings makes this and it is rather nice. Straight up nettle tea is an aquired taste. I would say that its worth eatingor having in your diet in some form for its nutritional value. Me and my family have a word when you have eaten too much nettle of a 'nettle buzz' I think because so many vegetables are lacking in their mineral content when eat a lot of wild foods you can feel pretty spaced out temporarily.

I think I would be scared to be around poision ivy and poison oak having seen the photos and videos of the worst side of it :/

 

[Trellum]

We made the mistake of planting purple heart, well the thing took over everything and was so hard to get rid of it. Seriously, never do this unless you want to completely lose that particular patch or gardening area to purple heart.