“Maybe I should do a weed id book and use my garden for the examples. Hmmm...”
Send me a copy when you publish that. You wouldn’t believe the number of ‘weed id’ questions I get in a day. *Rolleyes*
What do you care what it IS? It’s a freakin’ WEED. Kill it!
I identified two today, ‘Harebell’ and ‘Butter and Sugar.’ Both are very pretty but VERY invasive. The woman was SO disappointed as these ‘weeds’ had been in her family gardens for generations, LOL!
Fine. Transplant some from Granny’s garden and grow it. And I’ll see you in a few years when you BEG me for that bottle of Round-Up, LOL!
It’s so hard to make people understand that technically, all plants are weeds.
A “weed” is just a plant that’s growing where you don’t want it.
Most “weeds” have properties we’ll never understand, and the more invasive they are, probably the better properties they have. We lost that knowledge when we got kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Aren’t we going to feel stupid when we get to Heaven and ask God Why and he tells us—well that one cures cancer and that one... LOL Like dandelions and cattails—some of the best all around plants, foodwise and medicinally, and we expend more effort to eradicate them than most would believe.
It’s even harder to make people understand that Roundup doesn’t care whether it’s a weed you want or a weed you don’t. In the Roundup book, all must die. :)