What kinds of weeds are these?
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Patricia Linn on May 24, 2014I have the same ones! My mother in law (who used to do the weeding around our house) had a itchy reaction to them also. Usually, cortisone cream took care of it. Don't THINK any of it is poisonous but may cause skin irritation.Helpful Reply
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Cheryl on May 24, 2014I have this growing in the yard I just pull out what I don't want, if you think you will have a reaction to them wear glovesHelpful Reply
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MaryAnn B on May 24, 2014I have the same weeds growing in my yard...I live south of you around Portland. the sticky thing I used to call spurge, but don't think that is the name. Picture 3 is a daisy likesmall flower, I have a 'billion" of them this year. I think they get very tall and have little yellow flowers on them that turn into stickers. pull them all or use a shovel. Nothing looks poisonous to me. Looks like you have some wild geraniums in there too.Helpful Reply
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Debra K on May 24, 2014i also have the "velcro" type weed and I live even further south (Medford). I don't know what they are but they are a pain to pull out because the "stickiness" sticks to your gloves also and are difficult to get rid of. Round up is the next step in my goal to get rid of them permanently. Hope it works!Helpful Reply
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Kelly S on May 24, 2014I have to go to war with shovel and hands since chemicals will hurt my poor rhody. These were all weed whacked 4 weeks ago. The rhody may have to go too because it's all twisted and bent over from the morning glory, wild blackberry vines and salal that keeps coming back. @Douglas Hunt @Walter Reeves can you help me. I've never had these particular weeds in my yard before.Helpful Reply
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The Garden Frog with C Renee on May 24, 2014The Velcro weed we called bedstraw on the farm. Pulling it out is easy. The last pic is it a vine?Helpful Reply
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Kelly S on May 24, 2014No but the 2nd one is. I don't want to be miserable and miss work from enjoying my time off from work by getting into something itchy in the garden. the one does pull out fairly easy but I want it all gone.Helpful Reply
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Janice on May 24, 2014I live in Houston and have had tons of that sticky stuff this year. After crawling into the beds to pull it, there are hundreds of little sticky balls all over my pants and shoes. I thought they would just come off in the wash but was sad to see that they stuck on through the washer and dryer cycles! However, the ones I didn't get to to pull out finally died off and now there are just dead sticks to pick up. I wish I knew what to do to prevent them next spring. Any ideas, friends?Helpful Reply
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Kelly S on May 24, 2014Thank you for the suggestions but this doesn't answer my question because I still don't know what I'm dealing with.Helpful Reply
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Lisa Ray/Life Can Be Simple on May 24, 2014The first one is what I call PokeHelpful Reply
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Douglas Hunt on May 25, 2014Kelly, I would put on gloves and start pulling. The sticky one is Galium aparine. The bottom one looks like garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata. You want to get rid them before they flower.Helpful Reply
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Tracy Gilmore on May 25, 2014first looks like buttercup, second is Sticky Willy (Galium aparine), best got rid off before it flowers, those little balls contain seeds. third one not sure, to stop weeds getting in around your rhody try using straw or something around the base of the plant, im useing the hanging basket liners this year along with a newspaper mulch, around any new plants i put in, i also use old rugs pieces of carpet where i want new planting areas to kill anything and prevent reseeding of weedsHelpful Reply
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Kelly S on May 25, 2014Thank you all! I need to finish my coffee and change into grungy work clothes and go to battle.Helpful Reply
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Kelly S on May 25, 2014Dug and dug and dug. I hope I got them all including the $$*#(% morning glory. 7 black garbage bags are sitting up there now waiting to hopefully rot down so they will be lighter or at least take up less space in the garbage. Layered a weeks full of newspaper and catalogs under and around the rhody. I may have to cut it back in order to get it to grow straight. Thank you to all that posted your advice and encouragement was greatly appreciated. I found several volunteer potato plants under all that mess as well. I'll have to wait a month or so to harvest them. Nothing like free potatoes.Helpful Reply
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MaryAnn B on May 25, 2014Those little sticky balls are heck to get out of your dogs hair.....Helpful Reply
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Kelly S on May 25, 2014That's another reason I spent ever hours getting after the stuff. He has short hair so it wouldn't be so bad but he really doesn't like bath time.Helpful Reply
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Helen on May 25, 2014Morning Glory are the worst and they never really die. If by chance you can't get all the root out, try this goofy remedy, Vinegar, salt and Dawn dish soap. I spritzed dandy lions this afternoon and they were brown and fizzled in just a few hours. I hate using chemicals and this stuff works.Helpful Reply
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Kelly S on May 25, 2014That's what I use or just straight vinegar and dawn. It's doing the Washington rain thing now so I'll have to wait a few days for the weather to clear then I'm going after the weeds in the cracks in the front areas. I've been working extended shifts and the weeds know it!Helpful Reply
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Josh Joslin on Jul 04, 2015The last photo is a nettle. Beware of these plants. They have a nasty sting.Helpful Reply
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