Both are very hard to control. Unless you get every last bit of the roots and "nuts" out of the soil, they just come back.

i bought a load of soil last year that was full of the crabgrass from satan's own garden.

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Though the nearby Sugar Maples tend to produce "volunteer trees" and who can forget the godforsaken pokeweed.

Zone 6a.

is crab grass that is always in the garden. Actually all grasses----I have better grass in the beds than I have in the yard. And then there is that things that I made the mistake of planting, and will never get rid of---honeysuckle and mint (and creeping myrtle that I didn't plant, but I let it stay when it arrived because it looked so nice).

In the yard, I fight black medic the most, but I should say that I have given up on the dandelions.

The number one scurge.

Next? Mustard weed.

Then mallow.

Not even my chickens like it. It's easy to pull, but I must miss some each year. This year I have more than usual, which means I really missed some last year!

Then there is a tall weed with strange orange roots. If I don't pull it, it will reach 7' tall easily. It's hard to dig out the roots, so I pull as much as I can and figure it is a multi-year battle. Ten years so far.

Oh, and the ivy. Ugh. We've kept it mostly at bay and are careful not to trample the areas we've tried to eradicate so we can easily pull up any that pops up.

Ambrosia (ragweed), pigweed, knot weed and Lamb's Quarters in that order are somewhat less of a problem.

Such fun! the challenge is to make the weeds work for me instead of me working for them.

Cheers
Agony

Have spent every pretty day (all 3 of them) pulling that stuff up before it goes to seed. The neighborhood is full of it, so I will never conquer it. I had never seen it ever anywhere until about 3 or 4 years when some condos down the street redid their lawn and brought in top soil and sod. Their lawn is almost covered now. Of course it will be dying back soon, but it will start coming back late July.

btw...I am in zone 7...could we all include our zone when we are posting? It would help to know if something applies where I live.....thanks.

I'm in northern CA.

gahhhhh!

Bermuda grass, morning glories, privet, and blackberries. With Dallis grass, wild oat, and a few other grasses providing the occasional challenge.

Also known as pennyroyal

Its impossible to get rid of and takes over really excellent parts of the garden.

I have a lot of ground ivy, henbit.

You're a little ahead of us. Given a week or so, the weeds will be out in full force. That is why i will be out with my organic weed killer tomorrow.

That and my new stirrup hoe!

Get them before they get big. Much easier.


Cher

It is my nightmare that creeps through my daily life.

Oxalis is the worst of the winter weeds - it pops up in the rainy season here in the San Francisco area, chokes off everything else, then dies back when the warm weather starts. In the summer there's bitter lettuce and the grass that produces the prickly seeds that get stuck in my socks and all over the cat. I've got some new kind of volunteer grass coming up in all my potted plants this year. Then there's the calendula I planted years ago which has decided to take over the world. And the holly saplings that sprout from the nuts the squirrels stick everywhere.

Both are so lovely when they bloom, both are so persistent and annoying in their own ways.

Bindweed looks like little morning glories but is basically unkillable, will quickly overrun any plant, and strangle it to death.

Thistle is prickly and renders the lawn unnavigable in bare feet.

They are prodigious bloomer's, which is why we were pleasantly surprised (innocents that we were) to see the first few show up in the yard. They quickly developed into mounds of deep green foliage covered in lovely pink blossoms, each about the size of a silver dollar......

I've been locked in mortal combat with them lo these past 15 years. They are highly invasive, and they pop up all over the yard. I'll do a search-and-destroy sweep and pull every shoot I can find, but they spread by sending their runners out great distances through the soil in much the same fashion as a type of knotweed (which they may be).

I'll think I've finally beaten them only to face a fresh offensive come springtime. Here is a photo of these delightful tenants:



If I could just corral and maintain 'em in one spot I would be happy to agree to an armistice...

EDIT: I'm in zone 9

bed would be weed free!

give the chickens diarrhea. been pulling the same damn nightshade plants the whole time i have owned this house.

existence. I would love to have some advice on some way to eradicate...without roundup of course.

It's pretty much indestructible. I tried digging it out, plowing it out, raking it out, using weed barrier (which it laughed at and poked right through) solarizing it, drying it out by not watering for three years---I'm in southern California. You'd think something that got no irrigation would die after three years of bone-drying, scorching heat. But it's out there right now, as green as any lawn.

I'm not battling any specific weeds but a general mix of weeds that apart from one part of my vege garden have taken over and i'm pretty sure there's some Oxalis in the mix of weeds.

What is this five minutes between posts thing, are we supposed to be slow readers?

I have a died garden in our front yard. I hate crab grass.

Also, I know I am supposed to love it, but this:

This takes over EVERYTHING if I don't get it under control.

I've got Canadian thistle, quack grass, stinging nettles, and creeping Jenny. I wish I could find a way to be rid of them for good.

in the veggie garden but they are tiny little green things that come up and are very hard to get rid of. We weed and hoe but it's like they just come back. Never get very big so that much harder to get rid of.

...but we FU this Spring.
After several days of hand weeding our Strawberry and Asparagus Beds in the early Spring/Late Winter,
we noticed that our Honey Bees (we keep 2 hives) were foraging on Henbit which survived the several late frosts,
so we let it grow to keep the Bees happy.
It went to seed, and now our Asparagus and Strawberry beds are inundated with Henbit.

...but mostly, the Bermuda grass is a constant, year round battle.

And they are awful. They spread under ground by the roots. The foliage is pretty. Then little yellow flowers form then the burr develops. Ignorant bastards. I see them and shovel or pull them. Then I noticed that where I pulled the weed a circle of baby weeds started up. I just shoveled the babies up this afternoon. Yikes.

We also have Elm trees here. Yee gads the seeds are everywhere. Looks like it snowed thin, tan, paper dimes in my yard, on the patio, and my poor garage. They sprout the nasty trash trees. You know what I should be doing now? Not laying on my bed typing into my phone. That's for sure.