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Poll Question: Are you, or have you ever been, troubled by any invasive plants
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    Posted: January 14 2013 at 09:26
And whyknot.
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Japanese knotweed, virtually impossible to eradicate and totally invasive. Bindweed, not as invasive but I hate when it gets on the raspberries. All i do is cut it at the point it comes out of the ground because if you try to pull it off the berries it ends  up stripping the berries off. I guess you did not mention the most invasive of all, kudzu. Another scourge in my garden is buttercups. Another nasty one is yellow dock, with roots about a foot long they have to be dug out. I also have some scourges I mistakenly planted myself, horseradish, I do not like you anymore.
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Ragweed pollen does hell for my allergies.
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Kudzu is practically unknown in the UK and didn't end in -weed so it didn't fit my list. I did forget Blanket-weed, which is an algae not a plant but does invade my pond every year. There are a number of weeds in my garden I could live without - nettles, wild strawberries, brambles and dandelions but all of those are edible if I were of a mind to. Then I have kind of scientific respect for dandelions after I read that the trees on the Galapagos Islands are evolved dandelions - somehow the tenacious little buggers growing in my lawn seem puny in comparison to a 20m tree.
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Dandelions don't bother me at all. Fortunately we do not have kudzu here either.
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Kudzu is EVERYWHERE around here.
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Kudzu is EVERYWHERE around here.

Maybe it is in Washington state but I have never seen it nor do I want to
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Invasive weeds? Sounds like something I'd enjoy sticking in my pipe.
I do however believe there is a usage of virtually every plant out there. Nature finds a way to please your garden, even if it looks messy.
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Had to go with the Giant Hogweed. Tongue
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The stuff in the Mediteranean sea, Caulerpia Toxifolia. 
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I've been troubled with many weeds in my former garden.  I don't know any of their names
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Does quackgrass count?
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My garden's full of the blighters
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Sometimes I see some Giant Hogweed growing within a mile from my home. Janjaweed are not found in the part of the world where I live.
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Jap Knotweed and Hogweed.... Though I'm not familiar with all of the english names, I'm sure I've encountered most
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Some more: poison ivy (in Canada) and nettles (very invasive, but fairly easy to get rid of, if you pull close to the base of the stem to get the rhizome out as much as posible
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Milkweed, hideous.

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Chickweed's a huge problem for serious lawn owners in the Delaware Valley. I don't have a lawn, but I used to work for a lawncare company so I had to deal with it frequently.

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Some species of chickweed are edible - the problem with plants is while some are edible it does follow from that unhelpful but otherwise innocuous statement that some are not, and from those that are not edible the reason why they are not is often unclear - it could be that they taste bitter, it could be they taste wonderful but kill you.
 
I forgot to add sticky weed to the list - not sure whether that's its real name or not - it's a creeper with little hooked hairs on the stems and leaves that kids stick to each other's backs - harmless fun except if your wearing shorts where it can leave an unpleasant rash if you get tangled up in it. I think we call it goosegrass here.


Edited by Dean - January 17 2013 at 11:10
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