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potassium-rich liquid fertiliser to encourage flowers and fruit set.AdamYou can also make a liquid feed using the leaves of bracken, clover, groundsel, nettles, borage, chicory and strawberriesMore advice on feeding your plantsMake a nettle feed in a

and groundsel. The weedkiller, aminopyralid, has been ingested by farm animals and hasn't broken down. It's still present in the manure, which, when laid as a mulch or incorporated into soil, can affect garden crops.Symptoms to look out for include distorted

and tending and they'll be easy enough to keep cleared - easier than groundsel and bittercress and creeping buttercups and thistles and couch grass which are also a constant feature in my garden no matter how often I weed and hoe. I too try to be as organic

a chance to release seeds. A single plant can produce thousands of seeds, all with potential to grow into new, seed-producing plants. Groundsel and hairy bitter cress, start flowering while still tiny, so be vigilant and remove them as they appear

too long to work and doesn't last long enough, I have got a flame thrower but again doesn't stop the weeds coming up, the problem is there is an open gated field dead opposite my drive and weed seeds are constantly being blown across the road Groundsel

of the cinnabar moth this year in their striped ruby jerseys. I thought they had a very specific food source (was it ragwort or groundsel?)but this year they have been on everything. Not doing any apparent damage, and I wouldn't deliberately get rid of them

them in garden centres) without any problems whatsoever. Two years ago I ordered a couple of the herbaceous border special offers. Complete disaster.  The plants were pathetic little specimans and some plugs only contained nettles and groundsel!  Being

caterpillars when I moved about five hundred off a patch of groundsel that was about to be cleared. I really enjoyed relocating these to the ragwort as I walked the dog and they've really munched the flowers.. What are the best wild flowers to grow in my grassy

feet and it definitely covered the ground. I only managed to remove a 2 gallon ucket of weeds from within it. Dandelions, goosegrass, groundsel, poppers, an annual grass and ragged robin, plus the usual for this garden Ash tree seedlings. tp name but a

with the plants from J Parker. I ordered two packs of the cheap and cheerful offers which would apparently would fill my borders with colour.   Some of the plants did just about come through and I'm sure if I had planted the pots of groundsel and nettles