{"id":3580,"date":"2014-06-09T01:26:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T08:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2014-05-21T03:39:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T10:39:02","slug":"weed-control-tips-and-water-avens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips\/weed-control-tips-and-water-avens\/","title":{"rendered":"Weed Control Tips  and Water Avens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let your weeds seed &#8211; wildlife and wind will do the job of importing weeds anyway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3581\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/weed-control-tips-and-water-avens\/attachment\/wood-avens\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3581\" title=\"wood-avens\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/wood-avens.jpg\" alt=\"wood-avens\" width=\"520\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am suffering this year from a pernicious weed called &#8216;Avens&#8217; part of the Geum family. It comes in two sorts the yellow flowered Wood Avens\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Geum urbanum<\/em> and the pinker flowered\u00c2\u00a0 Water Avens <em>Geum Rivale<\/em>. They seed freely and there-in lies the problem as individually they are innocuous but when they spread around they become a pest.<\/p>\n<h3>Weed Control Tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not let weeds run to seed and disperse or you will have them for years.<\/li>\n<li>Do not put seed heads in the compost bin, if the heat fails to kill them you will end up spreading them around far better than mother nature can do.<\/li>\n<li>Hoe the soil as young annual weeds emerge. Good housekeeping will keep the number of weeds down.<\/li>\n<li>Remove the root of weeds to stop them re-emerging. Avens are shallow rooted but the stalks will just break off so you need to loosen the soil and pull out the roots.<\/li>\n<li>Think of any plant in the wrong place as a potential weed and remove or kill the flowering thugs amongst your plants. ( Forget-me-nots and some Poppies are a weed in my garden.)<\/li>\n<li>Beware imports of exoitic plants that become weeds. Water Avens is an escapee from pond plant situations<\/li>\n<li><!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Do not chop up the roots of pernicious weeds that can root again from just a root fragment. EG Ground Elder, Bindweeds Nettle or Couch Grass.<\/li>\n<li>Hand weed and remove the tap root of Dandelions and Docks.<\/li>\n<li>Some common annual weeds to look out for include;Chickweed, Groundsel Senecio vulgaris, Bittercress Cardamine flexuosa Shepherd&#8217;s purse and Fat Hen Chenopodium album.<\/li>\n<li>Grass seeds freely and can be a nasty weed getting close to the roots of your favourite plants.<\/li>\n<li>If all else fails use a selective weed killer but they will also select your good plants.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I spot weed when I must with a Glyphosphate base.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3582\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/weed-control-tips-and-water-avens\/attachment\/water-avens\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3582\" title=\"water-avens\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/water-avens.jpg\" alt=\"water-avens\" width=\"448\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/water-avens.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/water-avens-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a>Wood Avens near a path showing the seed bur ready to be transfered to a different part of the garden &#8211; out it should come PDQ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let your weeds seed &#8211; wildlife and wind will do the job of importing weeds anyway. I am suffering this year from a pernicious weed called &#8216;Avens&#8217; part of the Geum family. It comes in two sorts the yellow flowered Wood Avens\u00c2\u00a0 Geum urbanum and the pinker flowered\u00c2\u00a0 Water Avens Geum Rivale. They seed freely and there-in lies the problem as individually they are innocuous but when they spread around they become a pest. Weed Control Tips Do not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips\/weed-control-tips-and-water-avens\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}