I gather sticky weeds in springtime, dry it in the dehydrator, make it into a powder and add this to smoothes and fruit salads. Love it. I do the same with nettles and plantain.
Itself makes a great mulch. It sweetens the soil. Just pull it and leave it where you found it. I do that with all plants mind you. Nothing ever needs to be composted. Just straight back on the soil. The way nature intended.
@@sarahsallotmentjourney I do the same thing. Pull it up and lay in down in the same place. The shallow roots are easy to pull. Makes yard work easier.
This showed up a few years ago in my woods in SE Wisconsin. Hides in my ferns and tiger lilies. And I had just beaten the garlic mustard into submission. It never ends.
Same here. SE Wisconsin. Appeared several years ago in my yard and can't get rid of it. I have it contained in a wild area in the back yard but I have to be vigilant in keeping it out of other areas.
For anyone into natural dyeing, this plant is in the same family as madder, and the roots will dye reddish/coral. They're not as beefy as madder roots, so they're a pain to harvest, but it's an interesting experiment.
Handy herb generally used for swelling ... Galium aparine, with common names including cleavers, clivers, catchweed, robin-run-the-hedge, goosegrass and sticky willy, is an annual, herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae.
After I was very ill with an injury and run down from montgs of pain I added it my regimen of herbal tea plants to help build up my system and purufy abd move lymph. Its teadiky available on the hills ariund my home..it can be hard ti ery or preserve because its very juicy and i found it tends towards molding but i don't have a dryer. Very valuable medicinal plant too
that would explain why I'm over run ... previous owners had chickens... we eventually hope to get some... I'm growing chick weed on purpose. I'm usually ok w plants not where I planted them but a few are weeds no matter where they grow this one, prickly ones, garlic mustard, poison ivy etc.
I just pulled a bunch of this out of my garden today, and I was wondering what it was and just happened to scroll past this video. Thank you, this was really helpful!
I grew up in the 1960’s and 1970’s in the San Francisco Bay Area and I’m a gardener. Never saw it in any of the counties around the Bay and up through 1987. I moved 400 miles south to Los Angeles (none there), then back in 2010: it was everywhere. Our weather patterns had shifted. We had less fog and frequent false springs or or late cold snaps, and longer summer heat. We called it “Velcro Weed.” My Dad from South Dakota called it “choke weed.” It is often located under bird perches and I suspect birds or squirrels spread it. Somewhere I heard it came to California recently from Oregon.
I’m a native Californian (northern) and have been gardening for about 50 years. I’m 75. I never noticed this until about 20 years ago. I hate this crap!!!!
@@judithmccrea2601That sounds right. I got back in 2010 and it was here and there, and now it's everywhere. I curate the weeds in my yard. I have too much biodiversity. I'm removing anything with stickers. Foxtails, burr clover, hemlock, thistles, and now this sticky weed. Some of the grasses, too, will stab my socks if I don't prevent them seeding. I decided to keep the clover and dandelions after learning more about them. I'm with you. However, I'm still glad to know my neighbors have plenty they'd be willing to part with if I wanted to eat some!🤑
I have two pet sheep and they like to munch this so I let it grow here and there and when I'm wandering around the garden i can grab a bit every day to give them a treat. Free food is always welcome. Never thought of eating it myself. Will try it now though 😊
We have a small patch of flowers by the road and this stuff always grows amongst those plants. I usually forget it’s there until it’s too late. Thanks for the uses; I’ll try to remember to find a use for it and investigate further.
It's one of those plants that's easy to kill, impossible to get rid of. It was first introduced in our neighborhood about 15 years ago and it's one of the weeds I'll yank where ever I see it (even from neighbor's beds next to sidewalks). Still, if one neighbor misses getting it all, it'll be back the following year, perhaps carried by neighborhood cats or squirrels.
Thank you! Lovely, educational video. We have a weed like that on our property in Wisconsin. It’s only amusing because I can hoe it up and roll it in a ball or fold it since it sticks to itself. The roots are very fine and easily disturbed, but does the plant regrow from roots or only from seeds? ☘️
I have this along a drainage ditch on the edge of my property. I usually pull it as much as possible but never enough to eradicate it. I have always thought I was allergic to it because I would get what I thought was a rash wherever it touched my skin that burned. Now, thanks to your video, I know it’s not a rash. To me, it’s a horrible weed that I intensely dislike!
I used to hate sticky weed, until I realized how it protects the tender plants on the forest floor of my property in the forests of the Coastal Range in Oregon. It covers them and protects them from the harsh dry summer sun, and keeps the soil friable and moist. Unlike perennial morning glory and English ivy, it doesn’t smother and kill the plants but protects them. So I let it grow except where my animals like to travel, because of the burs.
Thank you for this video. This weed has taken over my garden and part of my yard and I haven't been able to identify it. I particulary hate it after it dies the seeds get all over my clothes in late spring!
This showed up only a couple of years ago on our patch in Southern Ontario and seems to be spreading thanks to an adjoining wild area. I keep after it as much as possible aware that it shouldn’t be left to go to seed. Alas it is no doubt a losing battle thanks to the wild area but for the sake of the rest of my garden I pull it out. Good to know it has some redeeming qualities. I wasn’t aware it’s edible. Will it stick to my tongue? 😜
Same, also in Melbourne. This stuff sticks to everything & grows everywhere. At least it doesn’t put up much resistance when you pull it out, but it gets away quickly.
To pick it or clear it, I found that a pair of nitrile gloves (medical or kitchen type) or kitchen rubber gloves work so well ! It doesn't stick as you gather up the lovely stuff. I have yet to try eating it. I try and "gather" before the burrs set.
bedstraw is the group of rubiaceae including galium aparine as well as common cleavers, the group includes the madders. in UK and EU they are exclusivly known as cleavers, because cleaving meant to stick to. i am really sensitive to the micro scratches
Sometimes, my chickens eat it, but not very much. I usually pull up most of it, but I leave some, because I figured some bugs or something needed it. Can't recall ever seeing spittle bugs in it, though
I do the same. I can’t keep the burrs off our Goldendoodle puppy. We are at the groomer at least once a month largely because of this weed. I have to keep him cut pretty short and can’t let his coat grow out. This stuff grows like gangbusters in my garden and around the perimeter of the field where we have fruit trees planted.
This is Cleavers!!??!! Does it spawn from tea leavings? I have tons around my tea compost area..just thought it was a weed.. Maybe its just a coincidence but now I know what I'm looking at lol thank u.
been battling this shit for a few yrs now.... I'm in SW Ontario. if you don't touch it with your hands I found wrapping it around with a tool, a hoe or similar.. I've even used a grabber, helps to remove it in a chunk.. getting it to stick to itself and then tossing the clump. seeds also stick.. my barn cats would get it stuck on them, ugh. this and the pain of removing garlic mustard, smh.
@@Salazarsbizzar Both, it can be washed and blended into smoothies, eaten as it is (it doesn't irritate the throat or mouth, just chew it and swallow the saliva, spit out the fibers if you wish), made into tea, poultices, catch it before it sets seeds.
We moved to a wooded acre in Charlotte, NC about 8 years ago…and not one stitch of this week was on the property. Then there were hurricane winds and rains that hit us and then the following spring this junk was everywhere! Always wondered if the storm winds brought in the seeds….
Sticky weed= the bane of my existence🤣 I have a long haired dog, Mia, who loves to roll in it and I have the 'pleasure' to comb these little balls out her hair. I found something which works better than any brush or comb I used in the past... a flea comb for cats! The kind I have is almost round and has stainless steel teeth(?) .
Showed up in our greenbelt some 10 years ago to my dismay, found out it was a food source and quit worrying about it, it's past getting under control...
I never saw this until the last few years. I mowed for my neighbor and it was growing all over his yard. I have a big in my yard, but remove it immediately.
Theres a reason for decades people with vested interests have wanted homeowners to "wage a war on weeds" ..... they don't want people knowing about FREE food or medicine
I call it Velcro weed. I think it is fun because of how it sticks. I tried drying it and stuffing a pillow and it was very unpleasant with lots of tiny sticks. I grew up in Massachusetts and never saw it till I moved to Oklahoma.
Do the blisters have creamy, white pus in them? The reason I ask is because I have two cats that are getting into something that makes my hands itch and break out. I think this might be it, but am not sure. It is prolific in my neighborhood. I have to scrub my hands every time I even pet the cats.
@@joyfulthings1 It could be dyshidrotic eczema. I get it from some allergens. If you can take an antihistamine to keep from scratching as soon as you get that weird feeling, you can nip it in the bud. When I do scratch it, the tiny bubbles connect and weep like poison ivy. Then they peel and it looks horrible. (So I try not to let it get that way!) Hydrocortisone doesn't help with it on me, but diphenhydramine does.
I don't remember seeing this plant before this year. I hate it because it sticks to my clothes and skin. I do throw it in the animal pen for the chickens, goats, and geese though.
Im in Ohio and some seeds of this obnoxious weed came into my garden in a bale of straw. Heavy layers of cardboard finally eradicated it. Only local straw ever since.
Gosh, whoever would have thought that could be plant of the month. I've got some of that appear in my wildlife garden. So now I'm wondering whethe to harvest it or let nature run riot.
Hadn't heard that before, but I think it's a distinct possibility. Names are often given for those reasons, and it's certainly plentiful enough and easily harvested for stuffing a mattress with. I've been calling it sticky weed for years without knowing it was actually called that, because it's literally a 'sticky' weed! 😅
This stuff is out of control in my area!!! I can’t even pull it all and surrounding areas seed then I find it again all over my yard in flower bed around bushes trees in ditches It is horrific to manage!!!! So maybe I get some chickens??? I don’t know if I would want to eat it on the regular. Will check out facts more…
I've been calling this stuff hairy vetch but apparently I'm wrong. I can't imagine the effort of gathering enough seed to roast for that coffee like beverage. Worse than saffron.
An absolute pain to remove completely as you need to get every one of them before they seed. They like to grow in difficult places to get to so you never get all of them.
Mountain gorillas eat this as one of their main sources of food. If you watch any documentary on gorillas you will see this. Until the babies gorillas learn the technique on how to eat it, it is amusing to watch them attempt it.
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At least it is easy to pull. I love a weed that takes up a lot of space but when you pull it the root is small and comes up easily.
Exactly- if it's the same plant I'm thinking of it's not a problem.
It also smells lovely, like hay - to me, anyway! But I am adamant about keeping it off my property!
I never saw this stuff 10 years ago and now it’s everywhere.
yup--me too.
same here...
First time I've seen it was this spring... and suddenly it's everywhere. Pulls out easily, but wear gloves.
It's one of the very best spring tonic plants, along with dandelion. Learn to love it!!
I think this is what is on my fences here in PA - sticks to everything, and reminds me of velcro when I'm trying to pull it off...
We call it velcro weed.
@@elebenty5709 same here!
I noticed this plant recently when weeding my garden. I was thinking this is a velcro plant.
Fun fact this plant is responsible for the creation of velcro
I gather sticky weeds in springtime, dry it in the dehydrator, make it into a powder and add this to smoothes and fruit salads. Love it. I do the same with nettles and plantain.
Itself makes a great mulch. It sweetens the soil. Just pull it and leave it where you found it. I do that with all plants mind you. Nothing ever needs to be composted. Just straight back on the soil. The way nature intended.
That’s a great idea to use as a mulch
@@sarahsallotmentjourney I do the same thing. Pull it up and lay in down in the same place. The shallow roots are easy to pull. Makes yard work easier.
In Washington State it is called cleavers & make a tincture for allergies
This showed up a few years ago in my woods in SE Wisconsin. Hides in my ferns and tiger lilies. And I had just beaten the garlic mustard into submission. It never ends.
Same here. SE Wisconsin. Appeared several years ago in my yard and can't get rid of it. I have it contained in a wild area in the back yard but I have to be vigilant in keeping it out of other areas.
Finally! Some knowledge about this "sticky wicket" of a weed
I’ve never had this before but this year it is *everywhere *!
Same here in Michigan!
Part of natures natural medicine.
My dog can't eat enough of this, he loves it.
For anyone into natural dyeing, this plant is in the same family as madder, and the roots will dye reddish/coral. They're not as beefy as madder roots, so they're a pain to harvest, but it's an interesting experiment.
I'd read bedstraw made a pink dye. I had no idea it was the same as cleavers.
What mordant do you use for the dye?
@@therealhellkitty5388 I tend to stick with alum for natural dyes. Wildcraft dyeing has a great page on the process.
Handy herb generally used for swelling ... Galium aparine, with common names including cleavers, clivers, catchweed, robin-run-the-hedge, goosegrass and sticky willy, is an annual, herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae.
After I was very ill with an injury and run down from montgs of pain I added it my regimen of herbal tea plants to help build up my system and purufy abd move lymph.
Its teadiky available on the hills ariund my home..it can be hard ti ery or preserve because its very juicy and i found it tends towards molding but i don't have a dryer. Very valuable medicinal plant too
You can dry stuff in your oven on lowest temp.
delicious tea
You steep it when green and fresh?
@@bosatsu76 yes. It is great for the lymph and blood
When I had chickens, they LOVEd this stuff..
I love it when I get that sticky weed
I love it. It’s got beautiful white flowers
Definition of a weed is any plant or tree growing were you don’t want it, my chickens love it.
This is good to know...about the chickens.
Goats love it, too!
that would explain why I'm over run ... previous owners had chickens... we eventually hope to get some... I'm growing chick weed on purpose.
I'm usually ok w plants not where I planted them but a few are weeds no matter where they grow this one, prickly ones, garlic mustard, poison ivy etc.
I just pulled a bunch of this out of my garden today, and I was wondering what it was and just happened to scroll past this video. Thank you, this was really helpful!
My German Shepherd Dogs love it so I do not have a problem of it going crazy in the back yard.
👍🙏☑️😀
My Red Foot Tortoise loves these 🥰
This is the 3rd season I've had this in my garden. It seems to favor intertwining in my salmon-flowered quince.
I grew up in the 1960’s and 1970’s in the San Francisco Bay Area and I’m a gardener. Never saw it in any of the counties around the Bay and up through 1987. I moved 400 miles south to Los Angeles (none there), then back in 2010: it was everywhere. Our weather patterns had shifted. We had less fog and frequent false springs or or late cold snaps, and longer summer heat. We called it “Velcro Weed.” My Dad from South Dakota called it “choke weed.” It is often located under bird perches and I suspect birds or squirrels spread it.
Somewhere I heard it came to California recently from Oregon.
I’m a native Californian (northern) and have been gardening for about 50 years. I’m 75. I never noticed this until about 20 years ago. I hate this crap!!!!
@@judithmccrea2601That sounds right. I got back in 2010 and it was here and there, and now it's everywhere. I curate the weeds in my yard. I have too much biodiversity. I'm removing anything with stickers. Foxtails, burr clover, hemlock, thistles, and now this sticky weed. Some of the grasses, too, will stab my socks if I don't prevent them seeding. I decided to keep the clover and dandelions after learning more about them. I'm with you. However, I'm still glad to know my neighbors have plenty they'd be willing to part with if I wanted to eat some!🤑
I have two pet sheep and they like to munch this so I let it grow here and there and when I'm wandering around the garden i can grab a bit every day to give them a treat. Free food is always welcome. Never thought of eating it myself. Will try it now though 😊
4:20 video about "sticky weed"...I am glad it caught my attention, now I can confidently identify a new plant type and its uses.
We have a small patch of flowers by the road and this stuff always grows amongst those plants. I usually forget it’s there until it’s too late. Thanks for the uses; I’ll try to remember to find a use for it and investigate further.
Thank you. That was helpful.
Well bless my britches!! I now have a name for this "weed". Don't know where it came from but it's all OVER my yard/creekbanks/off my decks.
Lovely and informative video. See a lot of goosegrass here in Cumbria. It grew plentifully on my allotment but fortunately easy to pull up. I like it.
It's one of those plants that's easy to kill, impossible to get rid of. It was first introduced in our neighborhood about 15 years ago and it's one of the weeds I'll yank where ever I see it (even from neighbor's beds next to sidewalks). Still, if one neighbor misses getting it all, it'll be back the following year, perhaps carried by neighborhood cats or squirrels.
Been a problem plant here in USA. Will give it to my chickens!!
Thank you! Lovely, educational video. We have a weed like that on our property in Wisconsin. It’s only amusing because I can hoe it up and roll it in a ball or fold it since it sticks to itself. The roots are very fine and easily disturbed, but does the plant regrow from roots or only from seeds? ☘️
I have this along a drainage ditch on the edge of my property. I usually pull it as much as possible but never enough to eradicate it. I have always thought I was allergic to it because I would get what I thought was a rash wherever it touched my skin that burned. Now, thanks to your video, I know it’s not a rash. To me, it’s a horrible weed that I intensely dislike!
My dogs love to eat this stuff. They'll fight me for it in the early spring when the tops are tender.
I used to hate sticky weed, until I realized how it protects the tender plants on the forest floor of my property in the forests of the Coastal Range in Oregon. It covers them and protects them from the harsh dry summer sun, and keeps the soil friable and moist. Unlike perennial morning glory and English ivy, it doesn’t smother and kill the plants but protects them. So I let it grow except where my animals like to travel, because of the burs.
Thank you for this video. This weed has taken over my garden and part of my yard and I haven't been able to identify it. I particulary hate it after it dies the seeds get all over my clothes in late spring!
My rabbits love this stuff like crazy! I found out a bit late this year, but I’ll have a ton to harvest next spring before the seeds form.
It's sold in farmers markets. I've always picked my own to put in smoothies.
This showed up only a couple of years ago on our patch in Southern Ontario and seems to be spreading thanks to an adjoining wild area. I keep after it as much as possible aware that it shouldn’t be left to go to seed. Alas it is no doubt a losing battle thanks to the wild area but for the sake of the rest of my garden I pull it out. Good to know it has some redeeming qualities. I wasn’t aware it’s edible. Will it stick to my tongue? 😜
This plant also grows in Australia. I have it in my yard near Melbourne.
Same, also in Melbourne. This stuff sticks to everything & grows everywhere. At least it doesn’t put up much resistance when you pull it out, but it gets away quickly.
To pick it or clear it, I found that a pair of nitrile gloves (medical or kitchen type) or kitchen rubber gloves work so well ! It doesn't stick as you gather up the lovely stuff. I have yet to try eating it. I try and "gather" before the burrs set.
I’d love to be able to use nothing more than gloves - I need full-body protection when going anywhere near it 😑
It's an herb. If you want to get rid of it, try eating it.
Good for chronic lyme!
@@lourdesdoty7765 Thanks!
@@lourdesdoty7765 Good to know! I need to learn more about this.
bedstraw is the group of rubiaceae including galium aparine as well as common cleavers, the group includes the madders. in UK and EU they are exclusivly known as cleavers, because cleaving meant to stick to. i am really sensitive to the micro scratches
Sometimes, my chickens eat it, but not very much. I usually pull up most of it, but I leave some, because I figured some bugs or something needed it. Can't recall ever seeing spittle bugs in it, though
You are wonderfully educational. I'm so glad I found your channel! Thank you so much. New subscriber here, wishing you all the very best!
Just gave my hens a handful, they do eat it.....
Its great for psoriasis. Make a lotion or tincture.
Thanks, got them 3 years ago, trying to get rid of. Make sure you dig the root.
Looks like what we in Britain call cleavers, goosegrass or - to kids - sticky bobs.
Yep. As she said at the start, “also called cleavers” 😉
Sticky Jack is what I call it 🤷♂️
It is also known in the UK as 'Our Lady's bedstraw"
This just showed up in my garden this year in New England. I am hoping to get the upper hand.
It is growing in Oregon too...
Very helpful 😊
This stuff is a nightmare with my 3 Aussie Shepherds. I diligently remove it.
I do the same. I can’t keep the burrs off our Goldendoodle puppy. We are at the groomer at least once a month largely because of this weed. I have to keep him cut pretty short and can’t let his coat grow out. This stuff grows like gangbusters in my garden and around the perimeter of the field where we have fruit trees planted.
My two Shelties manage to find every kind of burr that is out there, including these. I call it "Velcro weed".
This is Cleavers!!??!! Does it spawn from tea leavings? I have tons around my tea compost area..just thought it was a weed.. Maybe its just a coincidence but now I know what I'm looking at lol thank u.
We have great fun with our grandchildren. We play a game of throwing a piece of this weed and see who it sticks to
I am so allergic to it. It grows everywhere in my yard. First time here. I will subscribe
I've heard it called 'Velcro Weed', which certainly acts like velcro. Pulling it out with bare hands can be painful; gloves are recommended.
been battling this shit for a few yrs now.... I'm in SW Ontario.
if you don't touch it with your hands I found wrapping it around with a tool, a hoe or similar.. I've even used a grabber, helps to remove it in a chunk.. getting it to stick to itself and then tossing the clump. seeds also stick.. my barn cats would get it stuck on them, ugh. this and the pain of removing garlic mustard, smh.
Growing like crazy on my property
Forgot Pharmaceutical antibiotics and use this instead, very fast acting and powerful.
How so? Topical, edible? Cuts or colds or both?
@@Salazarsbizzar Both, it can be washed and blended into smoothies, eaten as it is (it doesn't irritate the throat or mouth, just chew it and swallow the saliva, spit out the fibers if you wish), made into tea, poultices, catch it before it sets seeds.
Cleavers can be used as a vegetarian rennet.
We moved to a wooded acre in Charlotte, NC about 8 years ago…and not one stitch of this week was on the property. Then there were hurricane winds and rains that hit us and then the following spring this junk was everywhere! Always wondered if the storm winds brought in the seeds….
Sticky weed= the bane of my existence🤣 I have a long haired dog, Mia, who loves to roll in it and I have the 'pleasure' to comb these little balls out her hair. I found something which works better than any brush or comb I used in the past... a flea comb for cats! The kind I have is almost round and has stainless steel teeth(?) .
Have seen it for years, but I'm seeing it quite a bit more lately.
I love sticky weed. NGL.
Showed up in our greenbelt some 10 years ago to my dismay, found out it was a food source and quit worrying about it, it's past getting under control...
I never saw this until the last few years. I mowed for my neighbor and it was growing all over his yard. I have a big in my yard, but remove it immediately.
My big Long Hair Dachshund eats Cleaver like it's candy. He loves the stuff.
Thank goodness it’s easy to pull. It’s terrible stuff that will take over.
Theres a reason for decades people with vested interests have wanted homeowners to "wage a war on weeds" ..... they don't want people knowing about FREE food or medicine
Since edible, how is it prepared?
@jackjones9460, I've had it pan fried in a little butter. Surprisingly good! Great stir fried and then mixed in with scrambled eggs too.
I call it Velcro weed. I think it is fun because of how it sticks. I tried drying it and stuffing a pillow and it was very unpleasant with lots of tiny sticks. I grew up in Massachusetts and never saw it till I moved to Oklahoma.
Historically it was used to stuff bed mattresses, thus the name "bedstraw".
A person I know uses this plant for its medicinal benefits.
I am so allergic to that plant! Itchy and then blisters - i hate it.
Do the blisters have creamy, white pus in them? The reason I ask is because I have two cats that are getting into something that makes my hands itch and break out. I think this might be it, but am not sure. It is prolific in my neighborhood. I have to scrub my hands every time I even pet the cats.
@@rbhughbanks no, they are like tiny water blisters - clear fluid.
Thanks for replying. I’ll just keep looking, I guess. Maybe it’s poison ivy or oak, but I don’t think so.
@@joyfulthings1 It could be dyshidrotic eczema. I get it from some allergens. If you can take an antihistamine to keep from scratching as soon as you get that weird feeling, you can nip it in the bud. When I do scratch it, the tiny bubbles connect and weep like poison ivy. Then they peel and it looks horrible. (So I try not to let it get that way!) Hydrocortisone doesn't help with it on me, but diphenhydramine does.
@@joyfulthings1Yes, EXACTLY! And they hurt, too…
I don't remember seeing this plant before this year. I hate it because it sticks to my clothes and skin. I do throw it in the animal pen for the chickens, goats, and geese though.
The juice of the weed can cause swelling in the face and eyes if on your fingers and you rub either place.
Who knew it was such a useful ‘weed ‘
That stuff is goat candy! Not too surprising that deer like it.
A 4:20 video about sticky weed?
Im in Ohio and some seeds of this obnoxious weed came into my garden in a bale of straw. Heavy layers of cardboard finally eradicated it. Only local straw ever since.
Gosh, whoever would have thought that could be plant of the month. I've got some of that appear in my wildlife garden. So now I'm wondering whethe to harvest it or let nature run riot.
Most informative thank you. Did I detect a South African accent?
Bedstraw....called that in medieval times. I'm wondering if the name indicates it use back then...?...
Hadn't heard that before, but I think it's a distinct possibility. Names are often given for those reasons, and it's certainly plentiful enough and easily harvested for stuffing a mattress with. I've been calling it sticky weed for years without knowing it was actually called that, because it's literally a 'sticky' weed! 😅
@@HilaryB.😊 ❤
I hate it. It smothers everything
This stuff is out of control in my area!!! I can’t even pull it all and surrounding areas seed then I find it again all over my yard in flower bed around bushes trees in ditches
It is horrific to manage!!!!
So maybe I get some chickens???
I don’t know if I would want to eat it on the regular.
Will check out facts more…
I've been calling this stuff hairy vetch but apparently I'm wrong. I can't imagine the effort of gathering enough seed to roast for that coffee like beverage. Worse than saffron.
An absolute pain to remove completely as you need to get every one of them before they seed. They like to grow in difficult places to get to so you never get all of them.
Remove it before it seeds.
Removing the plant once it seeds means dealing with endless seeds sticking to your clothes.
The Scots call it Sticky Willy. Pronounced. "wullie" - rhymes with sully.
Mountain gorillas eat this as one of their main sources of food. If you watch any documentary on gorillas you will see this. Until the babies gorillas learn the technique on how to eat it, it is amusing to watch them attempt it.
I call it velcro vine.
I got click baited by the title. Joking, now I regret mowing my lawn, had this stuff knee-high a few weeks ago, now it's gone.
No worries - it will be back!
I hate the stuff...sick of pulling it up all around my garden.
@@goldiegirl7247 did you try putting down cardboard or straw?
my 4 pet girl mice sisters eat stickyweed along with dandy lyons leaves they must have their greens ha ha yorkshire granny
Velcro weed!
Good presentation but really Whicopedia?
This came to my garden in bagged manure. It's a pest.
I call it Velcro Weed and I just pull it out
That's what I cal it too. It grows very rapidly.
Difference between flower and weed: Pull it up. If if grows back it’s a weed.