what's your worst weed???

[Peter]

Couch, but only because I have so much of it.

Bindweed a close second, because of the way it regrows from the tinyest scrap about three foot down.

[fruit&vegvirgin]

lol at Monty and the ground elder!!! I've got a nice crop of chickweed, would he like that do you think? - anything for an excuse to chat up Monty!

[jeff willans]

chickweed is fine, it can be dug in deep when turning over the soil, on my allotment its a draw between couch grass and bindweed

[poshfan]

worst weed

mine has to be hairy bitter cress - not only has it infected the lawn now as well as the flower and veg beds, due to my being ill most of last year and unable to weed fully, now I discover it's likely to carry club root!

[Geordie]

My worst weed was from morocco, must have been cut with something dodgy.....oh sorry.....in that case I will opt for bindweed, most troublesome pest is the old bloke 4 gardens away who assumes the hour you managed to scrape together betwen work, weather & family with 101 jobs to do at the allotment is for him to wax lyrical from his arthritus to his time at Arnham.....only joking!!

[JennieAtkinson]

Ground elder - grows like wildfire up here with 24 hour daylight. I am learning to live with it (sort of ...)

[Shortie]

I have a weed all over my garden, the leaves look like a geranium but I don't think it's Cranesbill... it's a nightmare... like bindweed it regrows from the tiniest bit left in the ground, as well as setting roots as it sprawls. I pull as much of it up as I can see, but it's even roots under by concrete paths!

Any ideas what it is, apart from awful?

[SueA]

Hi Shortie, could it be creeping buttercup, that spreads everywhere as runners & the leaves look a bit geranium like? Or maybe field speedwell that roots from stems along the ground as well? My worst are cleavers under my shrubs & dandelions popping up between the paving stones.

[Alice]

I'm lucky to be relatively free of realy pernicious weeds but I hate the bittercress. It seems to be able to appear and seed in a day. I'm sure it grows out of compost and plants bought in garden centres. Its a constant battle to remove it but I never get clear of it.

[Green Great]

My worst weed is normally chickweed, it sworms over our potatoes near enough overnight sometimes, and your there pulling it out all day.Its also the perfect wee hide away for vine weevil and other pests,

[sewer rat]

Hi Shortie,
Your weed is almost definitely Creeping Buttercup as SueA says. I have it in my garden and it's in the flower beds, the lawn, everywhere. It's a bugger to get rid of - I just dig it out whenever I see it, but in no time at all it's back.

[Shortie]

Hi Rat

After SueA's suggestions I googled them and I think it's field speedwell as the flowers looked the same, but yes, like (it sounds) creeping buttercup, this one is a devil to get rid of as the undeground roots can spread so far and deep that I think I'll be ripping it up for many years to come

[fruit&vegvirgin]

am going to change my mind and go for creeping buttercup - have spent so long digging it out, trying to kill it in the lawn, fantasising about spraying it. why is it that weeds have the constitution of iron, while the stuff you actually want turns pale and kicks the bucket the minute you take your eye off it?

[Birdie Wife]

Too right FVV. I've got creeping buttercup too and it doesn't matter how much you dig out, you always find you've missed a bit and when you come back from your hols it's rampant again.

[eskymo]

My main problem is my neighbours spreading plants that keep on trying to move into my garden through the iron fence...mostly mint which is everywhere and there are tons of other plants that spread via underground roots and tubers, but I have no idea what they are called.

I've got tons of different weeds that keep coming back but I have no idea what they are - does anyone know of a website that has photo's of weeds so I know what I've got?