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want to put something in this year for colour and to help protect from weeds so the soil will be good next year.  Soil texture is excellent & ph was 7.5 when I tested a few years ago.  The beds will get a reasonable amount of sun but are quite high so I

seedlings are little light green ferny things. whoops   These are not Cornflowers. Annual Cornflower has a slim silvery green leaf. Perennial Cornflower has a wider leaf. look like weeds to me sorry! the leave are long and slim on cornflowers. See I think I

Yellow sorrel, Oxalis corniculata, is a low, creeping weed that will happily grow anywhere - it's as happy in the bone-dry cracks in paving as it is in the damp garden and around the tops of containers. Although small, it's tricky to pull out

with them for moisture and nutrients. My plot is certainly far from perfect - it's a constant battle of removing perennial weeds and hoeing annuals in the worst affected areas. I try to weed on a 'little and often' basis; I concentrate on the worst beds

as the books say it should be.So what goes wrong with the compost on the plot? The answer is simple: lack of variety.The compost I make at work has grass clippings, weeds, herbaceous stems, annual plants, the odd barrowful of spent compost from pots

their sleeve. Reach down to pluck these annual weeds from your borders and the merest touch causes the seed pods to explode and scatter their contents far and wide. Very clever weed, very frustrated gardener.So, is bittercress my Weed of the Year?No. I suppose

was good quality topsoil, could it have been a rhizome in the topsoil? If so would I have any recourse?Any tips on how to treat knotweed? There are no big roots underneath these plants.  I doubt that that is knotweed-it just looks like an annual weed

days. The stones? Are they big ? Otherwise don't worry too much but just keep raking and removing when you can. The weeds? Annual weeds will eventually be controlled by regular mowing but the raking and hoeing over winter will control these by turf

I have recently just started to maintain a few gardens. The gardens I look after are very large and this includes a large area of pathway, and a large area of driveway. I am looking for advice on how to purchase a more industrial weed and moss

weeding, but it will limit your options a bit. You won't be able to change your planting in a hurry, or suddenly decide to sow seeds of annuals to fill spaces. Make sure you water carefully as well, so that the newly-planted shrubs get plenty of water