Are these weeds or plants?

percy212

Hello

Doing some tidying up outside. Does anyone know what the plant to the front of the first picture is? Is it a weed? I have no idea.

It seems to be spreading rapidly across the gravel too. It must be a weed!

Help.

Thanks

magicbastarder

just a small pedantic correction - weeds are plants. just plants in the wrong place.

percy212

I stand corrected These things are taking over the garden and the driveway. Are they considered a weed?

jezko

You have some strawberry plants (Some showing white flower petals yellow centre) and what looks like willow herb (I believe it to be called this) a waxy narrow leaf and a pain in the A$$ to get rid off.

percy212

Thanks! Yes its a problem to get rid of because there are dozens of tiny plants scattered all over the driveway (and its a long one). Should I resort to chemicals?

catastrophy

Looks like fireweed. It's normally easy enough to pull due to shallow roots.

redser7

PErsonaly I'd pull them by hand

looksee

While the weather is dry if you just stir the gravel with a hoe or rake to loosen the small plants they will shrivel up. The bigger ones are easy enough to pull - I speak from experience of the last couple of days!

donalh087

Don't mean to hijack this thread but I'm in the same boat... My planting, back in March, got a bit random, so I'm not sure exactly what I planted where. I suspect that these two might be weeds but I'm not sure - the other alternative is that they are gourds. Any thoughts?

looksee

The top one is some sort of a brassica weed, the bottom one is campion, neither of which are going to give you veggies! There appears to be a row of seedlings behind the brassica, the small, darker green leaves. Not sure about that, but I am pretty sure that unless there are some parsnips in there, most of the rest is weeds.

donalh087

Thanks looksee. All gone now and looking much better.

percy212

Thanks everyone. I guess its called fireweed because it spreads like wild fire! I will rake up what I can while the going is good......