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into life - including the weeds. My last couple of sessions on the plot have involved a never-ending cycle of weeding and sowing seeds. It's so important to keep on top of weeding at this time of year. If left, they can smother young plants, competing

Could any one identify these mystery plants in my garden or are they weeds? I did wonder if the first could be Kerria - I dug a large one out early last year but didnt see any growth last year.   Many thanks     The top onecould be kerria, can

Hello. May I please ask for advice on whether this is a weed (see photo).  I planted some seeds last year, but my memory being sieve-like in the extreme, I forgot to label them and inevitably have forgotten what they were.  I now have these ‘plants

Hi there, I am a very new gardener and am getting to grips with what is a weed and otherwise but this one has me stumped, could anyone shed any light on what it might be? I was convinced it was a forget me not or a penstemon until one popped up

Can anyone tell me if they have had these poppy like plants on their allotments or garden, should I pull them up or do they flower or are they a weed. Next to a poppy they do not look quite the same but are very similar, there are loads. Thanks

it flowers. But there's no easy answer, I'm afraid - just weeding and mulching where possible.

HI CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME IF THIS IS A WEED THANKS GEORGE No photo - two furry plants I know Mullein or Verbascum, sometimes viewed as a weed but I like it and pull up those that have self seeded in the wrong places and keep the rest. Lambs' ears

exhausting tasks: for example, digging a long line of fence post holes, pointing between paving stones or even weeding. This was fine most of the time - bar occasional rebellions when a members of my workforce downed tools and refused to listen to The Archers

I have a weed that spreads all through my flower beds likw wild fire. It had dark red slighty hairy stems, dark green jagged edged leaves. It has a slight aniseed smell to it. it's roots are very shallow and I take the whole thing roots and all up

im not sure rather or not to pull this up or not as i havent got a clue what it is, if it is a weed i will pull it up, thank you. Bit hard to see properly, but it looks a bit like a Dock to me. The picture is too close-can you post another one