Let the Weed Wars Begin

[F, Calla & Luca]

This time of year I can't go collecting poop without ending up pulling weeds. I used to be more meticulous about getting roots and all but, although I still try I kind of enjoy imagining the weeds trying to survive with little or no foliage. Eventually they will be discouraged and give up. I'm a great believer, as I'm sure I've said before, of the encourage, discourage school of gardening.

I have a love hate relationship with weeds. Some like dandelions I can't abide. I also hate wild onions and bindweed. These white ones multiply like rabbits. Luckily they are easy to pull.

Some weeds like violets, above, and Golden Rod I encourage.

And Queen Anne's Lace

Some of my flowers spread, some reseed. I've even bought "weeds", since they are after all only plants you don't want where they are and I did want them : )

So tell us your weeds favorites and enemies.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I love violets and do everything I can to encourage their growth. I have white ones and purple ones growing in various shady areas around the house. The rabbits eat most of the flowers, but they come back year after year. I did buy some, too.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

I do not know where to put this but here is as good as any.  Confusions of a trashy gardener. 

These ferns are getting on my nerves.  They have taken over everything. I do love them but not in the mass quantity they have become.

So on to the garden store.  The price of hanging Boston Ferns is outrageous this year.  So, I got a little goofy with my weed ferns and planted them in pots.  What do you think?  HA!  Be easy, I did confess to be a hilly billy gardener.

There is a touch of Vinca Vine also draping over the sides.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

and another

[F, Calla & Luca]

Weeellll, they are really a little tall and gangly for hanging planters. You'd be better off getting some impatiens or something. Not expensive and they will be happy in this area.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

I KNOW!   I do usually have Impatiens in this area.  In time I will get some. 

But, I must have gotten a little too DIG HAPPY.  They make Roger laugh. They are very ugly

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

nothing wrong with getting creative!

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

I love Queen Ann's Lace. 

[F, Calla & Luca]

My neighbor told me the white weeds above were mustard. I only thought of mustard as having yellow flowers but these are in fact know as garlic mustard.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Seriously?  Interesting. I must have pulled a wheelbarrow of this today.  Who knew?  Actually, I really HATE mustard.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I thought it was garlic mustard! We have it all over here, too, it's very invasive.

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

The lady who used to own her house had vegatable garden in the back, but she got ill and had let it go. But my friend thought it was all weeds. I bent down a picked a long green piece of "grass" and was like, uh, Nicki, this is not grass, it's garlic! She had no idea. Then we discovered onions and goji berries, and who knows what else was growing in there. What fun!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

It may be chives that look like long grass. There are garlic chives, too.

My house had lots of very old, neglected perennial beds when I bought it, too, and since we moved in in November, the following Spring and Summer were like a treasure hunt! Enjoy!