And that in the end is the final analysis, isn't it.benhall.1 wrote:I always understood that the plain definition of a weed is "a plant growing where one doesn't want it to grow". I don't think there's anything more to it.
Weeds in the garden
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That's about the size of it.
For myself, after a few months deployed to the middle east... I can't think of a lot of plants I don't like.
For myself, after a few months deployed to the middle east... I can't think of a lot of plants I don't like.
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Poison ivy. I like it waaaaay over there.
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Concur on that one.
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Thanks all.
Your observations help a lot!
Watching a100+ hours of any lecture series tends to bias one's "framing" when making day-to-day decisions.
It's all coming out as: "Be where you are at the time - and do what is necessary for that time and place."
Also: "It is massively valuable to ask."
Here's some observations from my mowed "weed patch":
It is populated buy some nasty sharp-grasses, but mostly it is populated by marsh pennywort.
As it turns out, pennywort has some medicinal value - oddly, it is cogent for my health at the moment.
Perhaps place and herb have offsets?
There's a lot about the dreaded dandelion. At first, I know the root is edible .. if not very tasty. But something my wife observed (in another place): worms really like dandelions. From my left-brain, I see that dandelions deepen the soil by virtue of their long tap-root, but I never noticed the worms till I was shown.
Back to the left-brain: I invented a dandelion extractor- it's just a piece of steel pipe - maybe 1 to 1 1/2 inch steel pipe (curtain rod or some such). You get a broom-handle or dowel inside it. Press the pipe down through the crown of the plant, bent the pipe this way and that. and lift the whole root up as a core - press it out with the dowel and re-insert the core upside-down. I did a whole lawn that way once - takes a day, but dandelions are gone.
The deep message I get from all the posts is that when a person engages with the growing things - it all gets better - for all concerned.
That reminds me that I am nothing alone. Be it people or plants. When I engage and participate, it all happens.
Many thanks for the reminder!
How it looks after your comments it looks like this: The standout take-away from permaculture is:
1. Drive water into a slow path through the ground using swales and small dams. But be very careful of landslip! Plant knitting-root binders to control slip.
2. Only do the work you need to do .. unless you want to do more
3. Engage the wind. Trees are not just crops. They are also shelter.
4. Engage the sun - your home is a sun-thing.
5. Weeds tell you something. Some are not tolerable - hear their message and introduce something that IS tolerable and does the same job.
6 Above all ..observe .. ask .. be taught.
7 Engagement means doing less - for more! Inside and outside of the lawn:)
Many thanks all!
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Your observations help a lot!
Watching a100+ hours of any lecture series tends to bias one's "framing" when making day-to-day decisions.
It's all coming out as: "Be where you are at the time - and do what is necessary for that time and place."
Also: "It is massively valuable to ask."
Here's some observations from my mowed "weed patch":
It is populated buy some nasty sharp-grasses, but mostly it is populated by marsh pennywort.
As it turns out, pennywort has some medicinal value - oddly, it is cogent for my health at the moment.
Perhaps place and herb have offsets?
There's a lot about the dreaded dandelion. At first, I know the root is edible .. if not very tasty. But something my wife observed (in another place): worms really like dandelions. From my left-brain, I see that dandelions deepen the soil by virtue of their long tap-root, but I never noticed the worms till I was shown.
Back to the left-brain: I invented a dandelion extractor- it's just a piece of steel pipe - maybe 1 to 1 1/2 inch steel pipe (curtain rod or some such). You get a broom-handle or dowel inside it. Press the pipe down through the crown of the plant, bent the pipe this way and that. and lift the whole root up as a core - press it out with the dowel and re-insert the core upside-down. I did a whole lawn that way once - takes a day, but dandelions are gone.
The deep message I get from all the posts is that when a person engages with the growing things - it all gets better - for all concerned.
That reminds me that I am nothing alone. Be it people or plants. When I engage and participate, it all happens.
Many thanks for the reminder!
How it looks after your comments it looks like this: The standout take-away from permaculture is:
1. Drive water into a slow path through the ground using swales and small dams. But be very careful of landslip! Plant knitting-root binders to control slip.
2. Only do the work you need to do .. unless you want to do more
3. Engage the wind. Trees are not just crops. They are also shelter.
4. Engage the sun - your home is a sun-thing.
5. Weeds tell you something. Some are not tolerable - hear their message and introduce something that IS tolerable and does the same job.
6 Above all ..observe .. ask .. be taught.
7 Engagement means doing less - for more! Inside and outside of the lawn:)
Many thanks all!
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Mitch wrote:Thanks all.
Your observations help a lot!
5. Weeds tell you something. Some are not tolerable - hear their message and introduce something that IS tolerable and does the same job.
Many thanks all!
Hmmmmmmmm………You must be a very kindred spirit. All I hear from my weeds is laughter.
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[quote="Tommy
Hmmmmmmmm………You must be a very kindred spirit. All I hear from my weeds is laughter.[/quote]
I suppose it depends who the joke is on?
Larfing weeds might be preferable to the forest of dandelions I am currently looking at. Although, they do look rather happy ...
I was thinking of throwing out a bunch of carrot seeds - they do a similar job to the dandelion, but I don't know how they go with being mowed
Hmmmmmmmm………You must be a very kindred spirit. All I hear from my weeds is laughter.[/quote]
I suppose it depends who the joke is on?
Larfing weeds might be preferable to the forest of dandelions I am currently looking at. Although, they do look rather happy ...
I was thinking of throwing out a bunch of carrot seeds - they do a similar job to the dandelion, but I don't know how they go with being mowed