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1. Identifying weeds
Learn to remove unwanted plants
the easy way
Know your plants
Perennial:
Dandelion
that compete with
• Remove weeds nutrients and space crops
for light, water,
flower,
• Leave other weeds toand host natural
increase biodiversity
pest predators
Minimise soil cultivation to avoid bringing
buried weed seeds to the surface
•
Perennial:
Dock
Annual:
Common groundsel
Learn the basics
• Tailor weeding for annuals and perennials
• Remove weeds when young and before
seeds produced
• If weeds do set seed, throw away rather
than composting
soil
weeds get
• Cover baregrow; before with crops, the
chance to
cover
green
Annual:
Annual meadow grass
manure or light-excluding mulch
Perennial:
Creeping buttercup
Annual:
Hairy bittercress
Perennial:
Couch grass
Annual:
Common chickweed
Perennial:
Bindweed
Annual:
Cleavers
Annual weeds
Perennial weeds
• Live for several years, easily setting seed
• Have thick roots able to regrow from
small pieces
out to
• Digpossible remove as much root
as
• Compost top growth, not roots, unless
kept moist and stored first for 12 months
Perennial:
Ground elder
• Live only for one growing season, quickly
setting seed
fibrous roots that
• Havegrowth cut off whenrarely regrow if
top
young
• Dig out or skim off top growth with
a hoe
• Compost whole plants
Annual:
Herb Robert
in a plastic sack without light
Perennial:
Horsetail
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