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Talkback: Stinging nettles

I am having a real problem with nettles, docks and creeping buttercup in our wild flower patch - we have been clearing 10 years of overgrown garden for the last 3 years and all these weeds are having a great time!! I don't really want to use by Debs

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06/06/2012 09:19:59

by Laura Corin

Wild Sorrel

't have a long life, one or two years. Dock seeds can survive for 100 years!! Thank you Gold1locks for your advice on Sheep/Common Sorrel, that is the bane of my life. We have been here 8 years and it is still very rampant, but will try your advice, if I by asperge

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03/05/2012 10:41:33

by asperge

Shiny Blue Beetles eating rhubarb leaves

for some organic pest control. I get plagues of shiny metallic blue/green bettles, Shill. They savage my sage plants every year and move onto other leaves. I think they're dock leaf green beetles. Google an image of the name and see what you think. Thanks by Shill

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24/05/2012 12:42:14

by Shill

ID on climber- is this black bindweed?

the soil when it is done? If its compost from the council it is most likely hedge bindweed. Thats where I send all mine ( in the brown bin) along with any other nasty perennial weeds like docks, dandelion roots, enchanters nightshade, nettle roots etc. They by DMG

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13/06/2013 16:51:16

by DMG

Nettles

mum used to use spit and dock leaves for nettle stings. As soon as we got stung we would look around for dock leaves I get stung regularly too and whilst it helps with arthritic bits in my hands it does nothing for my arthritic spine. Arthritis by Cranesbill

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12/06/2012 22:36:25

by obelixx

Compost heap

carboard good with your lawn cuttings, and weeds whch are not dreadful things like dock or ground elder. Egg shells, crushed, are good, all yur vegetable peelings etc. of course, the garden will rovide plenty in due course, just keep lightening the load by Rocket60

12/05/2013 19:21:45

by Tootsietim

Mare's tail

instead of putting it in the bin. I think a lot of perennial weeds that have deep rootstocks bring up nutrients from deeper in the soil (up to 6ft) Nettles and comfrey are known for it. Probably bindweed, and docks are high in nutrients as well. I by obelixx

24/05/2013 21:23:30

by fidgetbones

Clearing and Turfing

is the grass- not the decent lawn type grass, just that long weedy kind of stuff, dandelions and other weed type plant (they kind of look like dock leaves but aren't). Anyway, i'm wondering how much of this stuff needs to be taken out before levelling by don logan

02/06/2013 18:26:49

by don logan

Problem

'll be digging them out for years. trouble is it's propagated by root cuttings, so like dandelions and docks, any bit left becomes a new plant. Would you like some acanthus spinosus, nut cutlet?. I've got tons of the stuff. Same spikes as acanthus mollis by Ian Hardy

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09/06/2013 22:35:28

by nutcutlet

Talkback: Nettles

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 by hereisabee

28/11/2011 18:36:39

by Gartenzwerg

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