Re: Glyphosate

On 16/5/08 12:06, in article 3XdXj.3235$4B6.255@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "stuart
noble" <stuart_noble@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Nick Maclaren wrote:
>> In article <xCdXj.34849$q96.11672@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> stuart noble <stuart_noble@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> |>
>> |> That just leaves the onion weed, which is occupying the shady side
of
>> |> what should be the lawn. The grass stops where the weed starts, so I
>> |> guess it's preventing the grass from growing. Any advice on that
front?
>> 
>> Onion weed?  I think that we need a bit more information :-)
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Nick Maclaren.
> 
> Looks like a white bluebell and smells strongly when crushed. Allium
> triquetum I think.
> As I said, I'm working from memory here. Very frustrating :-)

Aka Ransoms or wild garlic.  Dig it up or spray it seems to be the only
way.
I rather like it so when I had it in a previous garden, I always kept some
of it.  But it absolutely fills the verges of some of the lanes round
here.
-- 
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'