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If you want the dock leaf trick to work you need to crush the leaves and squeeze the juice into the problem area. So says Ray Mears anyway. I kind of like nettles. Lets face it they are the first plant you learn as a child and i get to look like a

year. Theirs was in moist soil but not wet. Shame really, it was fighting with all sorts of weeds, from nettles and dock to goose grass. But theirs seemed happy. I didn't think "small" and "gunnera" could appear in the same sentance together.  I tried

in the season.There are still some clumps of hairy bittercress, fresh new dandelions already sporting flower buds and a few docks looking obscenely lush and healthy. But their days are numbered. I've been systematically working my way around the plot, starting

of the brambles and docks. But, especially in more urban areas, you may well find a long waiting list. At the moment there are roughly 76,000 people on waiting lists.At the same time there are people around the country who have some spare land: maybe

 so Im wondering if it is a dock leaf infestation which are a tough plant once they have esablished . can only be dug up and has a long root so Id go for spraying and leave it on long enough to get right down to the root. Hi Lucky3 It's definitely

perennial weeds; before the garden really gets going it is quite easy to track them down. Also the ground is soft enough to winkle out the clinging roots of buttercups or the long parsnipy tap roots of docks. The nicotine yellow roots of nettles are easy

or in the loft.Wandering back along the road to Pontoon Dock, the Docklands Light Railway station, I pause to look at a few plane trees planted in an equally bleak scheme along the pavement. We’re almost under the shadow of the railway viaduct here, so perhaps

)  just slows it for a while - really hard graft is all that does it.  Having said all that, I have it, and quite honestly it is a weed I'd rather have than some, say mares tail, docks and so on.  It can be cut down, if you never let it flower it slows

' weapon.  In reality, it is 'OK' for simple uncomplicated weeding out of dandelions, but virtually anything else, is useless, Docks laugh at you. Daisies scoff and anyything else is irrelevent to the tool. It is though, a veritable MASTERPIECE

or under the paths.   The lack of light will kill it without having to use chemicals.  Just make sure you root out any big weeds such as thistles and docks as these seem to be almost unkillable.  I wouldn't put any membrane under the raised beds, just under