What weeds grow in your garden? (flowers, lawn, landscape, growing)

[Clark Park]

I was out in my garden over the weekend, not planting anything or even watering (we had plenty of rain this summer) ... but ... just pulling weeds ... and more weeds.

I haven't been that attentive to the back yard this year and the weeds started to take over.

Here are a few I hate. I hate them! Yes, I know a "weed" is just a plant growing in place you don't want it to grow and that so-called weeds often have beneficial attributes. Some of these are invasive, however and are choking out native plants.

Okay, here's my list. I want to read your list. Maybe we can compare notes!

Potato Vine or "Air Potato" (Dioscorea Batatas) - this aggressive vine is just growing everywhere! "Heart" or "arrow" shaped leave and wee little brown "potatoes" growing on the vine. I hear they're actually edible.

Plantain Weed (Plantago Major) - common in lawns. In order to pull it up you got to get a firm hold of most or all of the leaves at the soil line. I hear the leaves are edible too.

Poke Weed (Phytolacca Americana) - I hate this one most of all. It produces deep purple berries that can stain everything. If you ignore it, you will discover they grow into small trees in just a few weeks!

Porcelain-berry (Ampelopsis Brevipedunculata) - despite the pretty sounding name, the berries don't look like porcelain but rather like grayish blue or purple beads. An aggressive vine.

[wit-nit]

I use landscape pro weed-mat and it's rare to get an weed.

[Pitt Chick]

Meh... I don't bother identifying my weeds.
I just yank anything that is where I do not want it to be.

[kinkytoes]

When I found out pokeweed was native I decided to let it grow. Mine turned really pretty colors last year. I can't ID all of my weeds. The ones I like are jewel weed, pokeweed, burdock...maybe some others I'm missing.

I hate bindweed and...guess who used to think porcelainberry was wild grape? It took me forever to identify it. I thought I had grapes. The berries are edible, though and at least one nursery sells them. I agree it is noxious.

[Ohiogirl81]

All of them.

Although today I discovered a wild sweet autumn clematis in my vegetable garden - I'm going to be transplanting that to cover a trellis that had to be cleared when the rose climber developed rose rosette disease. A couple years ago I found a bunch of bluebells growing in the vegetable garden. They, too, were promptly transplanted.

Oh, and pokeweed is useful if you want to dye anything purple.

[Lost Roses]

I grow my plants so close together I can't see the weeds! That said, I do have a fairly new bed with newer plantings with spaces between them. Purslane and prostrate knotweed are right at home there. I like to weed so it's not an issue for me to dispatch them regularly.

[tburgos]

I never thought of learning the names of the weeds! I know that some of them might be beneficial, but I just considered them stealing the water from my veggies so I get rid of them as quickly as I can. I like to use hay on top of newspaper in the walking areas of my garden during the rainy season to keep them down. Other than that, pulling weeds has become my past-time.

[nuts2uiam]

I have a lawn service and they transferred bentgrass to my lawn, which compared to the other grass looks very dense. I however, am happy it is green and I'm hoping I have a prolific transfer of bentgrass to the remainder of the lawn.

[DragonflyMom]

I don't know the name of most of the weeds in my yard (south of Atlanta) but I know we have nutgrass, some kind of clovery stuff, and something that looks like little mimosa trees. I don't know why we couldn't have a system where the deer would totally pig out on weeds, and hate hostas. Seems like a good system to me.

[zugor]

The top 6 in my yard and pasture are:

Bindweed - chokes off everything
Canadian thistle - very sharp thorns
Cocklebur - sticks to everything
Horsenettle - pretty flowers but thorny
Jimson weed - poisonous, I've seen a little of it in the pasture
Pokeweed - some parts have good uses but some parts are poisonous.