Comments on: Gardening Rant - Weeds http://www.whatsgottago.com/2007/05/28/gardening-rant-weeds/ Sweat the Small Stuff: Ranting about the little peeves in life Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:32:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jeremy http://www.whatsgottago.com/2007/05/28/gardening-rant-weeds/#comment-4040 Jeremy Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:18:08 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2007/05/28/gardening-rant-weeds/#comment-4040 I couldn't agree with you more on the Morning Glory. That is the very weed I am primarily referring to on the fibrous roots. Those things really do bind the entire area to their bidding, choking out everything else. You have to admire its efficiency...for a moment, then curse it from that point on while trying to remove it. I couldn’t agree with you more on the Morning Glory. That is the very weed I am primarily referring to on the fibrous roots. Those things really do bind the entire area to their bidding, choking out everything else. You have to admire its efficiency…for a moment, then curse it from that point on while trying to remove it.

]]> By: wolfcat http://www.whatsgottago.com/2007/05/28/gardening-rant-weeds/#comment-3581 wolfcat Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:08:15 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2007/05/28/gardening-rant-weeds/#comment-3581 *ugh* 2 words: Morning Glory Whatever idiot decided that this was pretty and needed to be planted enmasse around my property should be consigned to the lowest level of whatever punishement-driven afterlife they believe in! The rotten things are trying to become groundcover (and in some part succeeding against me) and choking out everything else that I want to have grow in the yard. I can deal with the volunteer yarrow, dandelions and buttercups, clumps of grassoids in the flower beds, even the blackberries and thistles(albeit with gloves) but this thing deserves it's other name "bindweed" (or strangleweed). *ugh*

2 words: Morning Glory

Whatever idiot decided that this was pretty and needed to be planted enmasse around my property should be consigned to the lowest level of whatever punishement-driven afterlife they believe in!

The rotten things are trying to become groundcover (and in some part succeeding against me) and choking out everything else that I want to have grow in the yard.

I can deal with the volunteer yarrow, dandelions and buttercups, clumps of grassoids in the flower beds, even the blackberries and thistles(albeit with gloves) but this thing deserves it’s other name “bindweed” (or strangleweed).

]]> By: Ali http://www.whatsgottago.com/2007/05/28/gardening-rant-weeds/#comment-3477 Ali Thu, 31 May 2007 18:48:43 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2007/05/28/gardening-rant-weeds/#comment-3477 Well since your flowers, grass, garden is not native to your area and the weeds are...first problem we suburb dwelling homo-sapiens have is trying to introduce our non-native plants...it is a never ended battle...I say go natural and leave the weeds! :) Well since your flowers, grass, garden is not native to your area and the weeds are…first problem we suburb dwelling homo-sapiens have is trying to introduce our non-native plants…it is a never ended battle…I say go natural and leave the weeds! :)

]]> By: Pam http://www.whatsgottago.com/2007/05/28/gardening-rant-weeds/#comment-3305 Pam Tue, 29 May 2007 17:21:02 +0000 http://www.whatsgottago.com/2007/05/28/gardening-rant-weeds/#comment-3305 Oh boy do I hear you on this one Jeremy :( Weeding is a daily job, no doubt about it!! Sometimes makes you wonder why you have gardens at all, doesn't it!! I definitely "prefer" tap roots - atleast there is a chance of victory there. Unless of course you are talking about mid July or August here in Minnesota when the clay soil is like a rock. Somehow those weeds are able to grow up through what a shovel cannot begin to dig into. I'll never understand it. However, what it all comes down to is that it's all worth it when you look out over the garden and enjoy the beauty!! Keep telling yourself that as you dig :) Oh boy do I hear you on this one Jeremy :( Weeding is a daily job, no doubt about it!! Sometimes makes you wonder why you have gardens at all, doesn’t it!!
I definitely “prefer” tap roots - atleast there is a chance of victory there. Unless of course you are talking about mid July or August here in Minnesota when the clay soil is like a rock. Somehow those weeds are able to grow up through what a shovel cannot begin to dig into. I’ll never understand it.
However, what it all comes down to is that it’s all worth it when you look out over the garden and enjoy the beauty!! Keep telling yourself that as you dig :)

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