I'm sure it is a common one which someone will identify for me in seconds...
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LiriodendronScariff, County Clare, IrelandPosts: 7,427
It's Jack-by-the-hedge or Garlic Mustard (2 names for the same plant). It's a weed, but an important food plant for Orange Tip butterfly caterpillars, if you have room to keep a patch somewhere...
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I've no idea where it comes from, but every year I'm plagued by this stuff. Thousands of seedlings appear throughout the year all over the garden and between every paving crack etc I hoe, blast with glyphosphate, but they just keep coming
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LiriodendronScariff, County Clare, IrelandPosts: 7,427
Maybe you should try eating it, Pete8. In my garden that's a sure-fire way to ensure something dies... as soon as you think "that could come in handy" it turns up its toes...
"The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life." Rabindranath Tagore
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It's Jack-by-the-hedge or Garlic Mustard (2 names for the same plant). It's a weed, but an important food plant for Orange Tip butterfly caterpillars, if you have room to keep a patch somewhere...
Thanks for that. Your identification lead me here: http://www.naturessecretlarder.co.uk/wild-food-useful-plants/jack-by-the-hedge-alliaria-petiolata.htm . I may try eating it.The patch were it is is in front of the greenhouse and will probably stay. I have been pulling out a lot of its seedlings from around the garden though.
I've no idea where it comes from, but every year I'm plagued by this stuff. Thousands of seedlings appear throughout the year all over the garden and between every paving crack etc I hoe, blast with glyphosphate, but they just keep coming
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Maybe you should try eating it, Pete8. In my garden that's a sure-fire way to ensure something dies... as soon as you think "that could come in handy" it turns up its toes...
Good idea I'll go down the garden and threaten them.
Glyphosphate probably has the edge tho
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Don't bother with Glyphosate - they are very easy to pull up.
Noooooooooooo! don't use glyphosate ... the little plants are really good in a mix of salad leaves!