Search - Sitewide

Cleavers grows rapidly during warm weather. The sticky stems are able to scramble around the garden, smothering small, cultivated plants and setting masses of seed. It's usually introduced on the coats of animals, birds' feathers or human clothing

This info on cleavers is interesting as I keep getting this weed on my allotment.Do you have any info how to deal best with horsetail this is another pest I have. i usually get loads of this and now I know what it is I can do something about it

easily. Never have we seen so much cleavers, goosegrass, johnny run by the hedge, sticky grass - as many names as there are.  I even found a piece up in the golden hop, about 8 foot high, never had that before.  Ir is certainly a very good year for it

which are usually unused over the winter too. i have a patch of grassland which is occupied by nettles, thistles, brambles and cleaver. How and when do i clear this so that any plug plants ( next year ) will survive ?

cultivated ground, compost in pots, paving, walls, vegetable plotsall year roundMore advice on removing weedsPineapple weedCleaversDandelionGround elder

Japanese knotweedChickweedCleavers

Cleavers is a weed (accidental), as is also the planted Fox and Cubs (big mistake) Richard - thank you. Sometimes the sight of a 'weed' growing in a wall or crack somewhere is the only thing that gets me through the day, knowing that, when we're finally

seeding, they are worse than Cleavers. And to answer the OP (like I should have done in my first post )  I just used a seed tray scattered the seed over the surface of some compost, covered that with vermiculite and firmed it down. I left the tray in a

the tomato plants into your unheated greenhouse I do exactly that I live near Gatwick and never had trouble with mine. don't forget to talk to them tell them what cleaver little plants they are. carrot fly if you use something atleast 16inches the carrot fly

bushes not flower Ahard white crust has appeared on top of the compost on most of my indoor plants. I have tried taking the top half inch of compost and replacing it with fresh but it just comes back what do I need to do? Will I kill cleaver by hoeing