Herbs
The most harmful weeds growing on the farms around are scutch, chicken weed, praiseich, thistle, spunk, lambs quarter, tansy, dock leaf, nettle. All these weeds spread rapidly especially the sutch praiseach and thistle. The seed of the praiseach remains in the ground for seven years. Lambs quarter grows two or three feet high in potatoes. It branches and each branch contains thousands of seed. Thistles, spunk and lambs quarter grows on good land. and reeds and rushes grow on land which is wet.
Some of these weeds have medical properties. Blood wart