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Plant tender crops outside, covering them with cloches when night temperatures fallDig out perennial weeds, such as couch grass and bindweed, from borders as soon as you spot themWash dust off the foliage of houseplants, and apply leaf shine product

Dig out lawn weeds, such as daisies and dandelionsWatch out for greenfly and blackfly developing on shrubs, perennials and roses, and spray with a soft soap solution if infestations are badCollect hellebore seeds from ripe pods, and store

My farther has the dreaded mares tail. He spent a fortune on perennials last yeAr and its swamped everything! If he digs it comes thicker, if he leaves it it just engulfs everything. This has come from a neighbour and has now nearly taken over all

. And on this board we're often asked to identify plants which turn out to be weeds and which I would have pulled out at the two-leaf stage or before.  Of course, being able to identify which are weeds and which are our seedlings or precious perennials is one

black sheeting would surpress them but that has not happened. Why is this? Any help appreciated Andrew Many will have recently germinated from weed seeds in the soil because the sheeting has helped warm the soil up.  Others will be perennial weeds like

can help it. Try not to put it in the compost heap or any roots of perennial weeds will shoot next year and seeds will germinate. The processes of decay will kill the living grass and weeds, eventually. The weed seeds will however remain in the soil

. It was a lot of work, and has certainly reduced the weed problem, but not got rid of it altogether. Now I try to carefully study my border every week in search of any sign of these perennial weeds. I trace any shoot I spot down to the soil, then excavate

seen them cheaper I've not found either to work well on larger weeds. Geoff's weed gun and Kate's boiling water are far more effective, although perennial weeds will come back. Vinegar definitely works, I used it at the allotment last week - got

hi can anyone tell me what plant this is please   Looks like a Cape Fuchsia (Phygelius) hey thank you it just appeared this spring and thought it was a weed so left it to see what flower it would produce as my partner likes weeds for the flowers

of last year's perennials chicky. Haven't started on weeds yet. Different game. Dry stems to shredder, green stuff to compost heap.