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the buttercup, it's perennial, spreads by runners and has to be dug up. Herb robert can just be pulled and it won't come back even if some stays behind The white flowered one sounds like bittercress djjjuk but hard to guess without a pic - easy to pull up or hoe

the place I go to hide,From phones cold callers and others I cannot abideWith fork and spade a trowel hoe and barrowI patrol the paths some broad some narrowProdding poking dead head an odd weedEverything done slowly no need for speedThe tweeting of birds

material thrown in for soil improvement properties, and weed occasionally with a hoe-hoe.(haha).They DO look after themselves, and in about August time, after 7 months, harvest , drying the bulbs out on a rack in the sun. Garlic in a pot, is best with a leg

a combination of spring hoeing before everything's come up too far and ground cover planting. Favourites in my garden are ajuga (purple or pale green variagated), wild violets which seed wildly but are so small and pretty and easy to pull and move

about it for the rest of the year until they die back. Weeds don't stand a chance against those flowerbed thugs. A quick hoeing over the top when they die down, and I can forget about it.This end has forsythias underplanted with cyclamens and miniature

the ground (wind round canes). This keeps the birds off til they start sprouting which we find indicates the roots are strong enough to withstand the blackbirds, and you can then remove cotton and hoe round. Our shallots are a round golden one that came

if the onion bulb will be affected or whether to to give up and dig them up now ? My daughter and I are planted 100 sets together and we will be gutted if we lose them! I was wondering why all the advice given for weeding is to use a hoe and chop off the green

clobber the dreaded brambles. Persistent hoeing or dig 'em up are the only other options and the latter is certainly hard going.I have found that it is possible to compost perennial weeds successfully if you keep them in a black polythene sack for a time

i would be well cross if my shed got broken into ,its only got the bare essentails in hoe,spade,fork,rake and my rotavator but i would miss them if they got took like losing a finger and being on a tight budget at the moment it would take a few

trying to do some weeding round the onions but it is no good, and as for using the hoe its just not working t(the ground is like concrete). i think i will have to leave it till the weather warms up. Yep i agree with the last comment made here !! clematis