Opinion poll: which, in all the world of weeds, is the worst? Which would you most dislike to see growing in your garden (if you have one)?
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Opinion poll: which, in all the world of weeds, is the worst? Which would you most dislike to see growing in your garden (if you have one)?
My vote is for poison ivy. I was so happy to discover that the poison ivy by the creek disappeared for the winter, but nope, after a visit my ankle was still itching like crazy. I must attack it hard next year so it never makes it beyond the edges of the garden!
Regular ivy is bad enough – poison ivy must be terrible!
Probably ivy. There are plenty of other unwelcome things in a garden, but that plant gets itself into the mortar of buildings!
Disturbing the way it can happily survive being hacked off at the roots, too! (Thought: what treatment is there for zombie ivy?)
Thistles are pretty bad. They prickle right through thick gloves. But currently I’m battling through a whole vegetable garden full of nameless tentacled things with very deep tap roots.
Nameless tentacled things… sounds very H.P. Lovecraft!
I loathe stickyweed! And it’s everywhere in my garden! I wear rubber gloves when trying to pull the stuff, but it still manages to brush the skin of my arms, and give me hot itchy rashes, which burn hotter still when I wet them!
Ugh, that stuff is terrible. Also very fond of cats…
Is that the biddy-bid plant?
That’s the one! We hates it, precious…
Bindweed (wild morning glory) has got to be one of the most aggressive and hardest to control.
Definitely!