What weed grew best for you this year?

[Zemedelec]

Sorry but I couldn't resist blending two neighboring messages. In my case I'd have to say Japanese Climbing fern, with Cat's Claw as a close second. zemedelec

[J Kolenovsky]

Cat claw and Wedelia (I was warned when I bought it). Still pulling out Coronilla varia (crown vetch) after 5 years.

JK

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[JNJ]

The Weed of the Year award goes to Pokeweed again this year with a close second of Giant Ragweed. The pokeweed took over the back yard around the shed to dizzying heights of 7 feet -- since the area was already elevated a solid 3-4 feet (retaining wall & patio) that 7 feet looked even more impressive.

James

[no one of importance]

We had a bumper crop of star thistle around here. But I finally figured out that I can crowd them out by planting millet. Woopee.

Philip

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[Tom Randy]

Ground Ivy. It was REALLY, REALLY bad this year. I tried the 2 teaspoons of Borax in a quart of water on a small patch to test it a few weeks ago and so far it hasn't done squat. Next will be 4 teaspoons on another patch.

[Jenny]

All the usual barnyard ones, we had a new garden with a liberal coating of barnyard 'poo' beautiful and black, and lots of energy to grow anything put in it. (purslane, pigweed for sure) and a few others I don't know names of, but know them from years of garden pulling at the farm. At least they are easy to pull out! Jenny

[Tina Gibson]

They all did well - lambs quarter, dandelion, sorrel, oxalis, ground ivy, clover, etc, etc. But I allow all the weeds to grow until they flower and pull them before they seed. Most are beneficial to attract insects and the ones with deep tap roots help to pull up nutrients from the soil. The clovers and sorrel I use as green mulch. The ground ivy I definitely pull out of the beds but it makes a nice hardy ground cover for pathways.

[Atara]

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Lambs Quarters, common groundsel, flixweed, burdock, and bindweed. Chickweed was rampant in the front, and we had our first occurrence of common mallow.

[Beecrofter]

It was a tie between the common dayflower and jewellweed.

[DavesVideo]

The winner as in every year is Jerusalem Artichoke.

Dave

[Cheryl Isaak]

[Andrew Ostrander]

I had very few weeds this year! Maybe a few dandelions and some lamb's quarters.

[The Real Bev]

Burclover, hands down. I must have pulled 10,000 (literally -- one day I counted 500) and there were always more. I think I'd rather kill the entire lawn (HA!) than do that again.

[Tyra Trevellyn]

Oxalis, everywhere you look.....and bigger than I've ever seen it before.

Tyra nNJ usa z7

[Zemedelec]

"Et quid volo nisi ardeat?"

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[Dave Fouchey]

Weeds? Without Weeds I would HAVE no lawn....guess Lambs quarters, Greater Mullien, Bull Thistles and Dandelions. And a gravel driveway loaded with chamomile but I don;t count THAT as a weed!

Dave

[Pat Kiewicz]

This was *the year* for oxalis in my ornamental plantings. Lots of pigweed and black nightshade in the veggie garden.

[Dan D.]

I have a bed I try to keep in "wildflowers". I usually just grab a couple of packets off the seed racks in the Spring and mix them and sew them. This year I put a pack of some sort of "cosmos" on there as we've planted and loved cosmos in years gone by. This strain - what ever it was - went to all tops. It was taller than me before it fell over and the blooms were tiny and rather insignificant. They positively crowded out the rest of the bed and we finally attacked with shovels and machete and ripped the whole mess out.

I didn't save the packet but I wish I had. I sure as heck don't want that stuff again!

Peace! Dan D. Louisville KY good ole USA

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