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Hello there,
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
~Author Unknown
Cheers
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Here is an enterprising sign I saw on the roadside recently!
Anyway:
'Free Weeds U Pick 'Em'
~Author Unknown
Cheers
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Lestie, many years ago the head gardener did a year's course away from home, and I promised to weed and water at appropriate times. But not being very knowledgeable, asked to be told what was planted in each area. With this information, I just pulled up everything else. I noticed one weed seemed to be particularly numerous in one part of the garden.
When I saw the same thing growing in a pot, my first thought was how strange that he was growing weeds in pots. My second was that perhaps I hadn't been given quite a complete planting list. Rather than acknowledge his oversight, I got a "What?! You've pulled up the nasturtiums?!" But it probably won't surprise you to learn that despite the number I removed, lots of them cae up once I let them me. (In fact, our next door neighbour - a very keen gardener - considered nasturtiums little better than weeds, and was sorry that I hadn't finished them off.)
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Hi Mona and all, Just as well Nasturtiums are Nasturtiums and not some faint-hearted wimpy plant! I love them, their jewel colours, their versatility in the garden, their impact and their culinary uses ... yes, a person has to keep them in check as they spread so eaily, but then that's a pleasure too depending on your view. They are certainly easy to control so I have to disagree with your neighbour. Anyway, promising to weed and water someone else's garden while they are away is something you should should tell St Peter about when you meet him - Cheers now
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Hi all,
I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots. Justin Hartley
Ah yes!
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It's been some time since I contemplated the weeds, so here is a comically serious piece of writing - I hope it touches you as well.
A Weeder's Thoughts -ALMA B. Eymann
I have raked the soil and planted the seeds Now I've joined the army that fights the weeds. For me no flashing saber and sword, To battle the swiftly marching horde; With a valiant heart I fight the foe, My only weapon a trusty hoe. No martial music to swing me along, I march to the robin redbreast song. No stirring anthem of bugle and drum But the cricket's chirp and the honey bee's hum. No anti-aircraft or siren yell But there's Trumpet-creeper and Lily-bell. With a loving heart and a sturdy hand, I defend the borders of flower-land; While high over Larkspur and Leopardsbane, A butterfly pilots his tiny plane; But I shall not fear his skillful hand, My enemy charges only by land. Would those who lead nations in war and hate But lay down their guns at some garden gate, There, bury- their bombs and their bloody deeds, And join the grand army that's fighting the weeds.
Cheers now
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Hello there,
'Weeding begins at daybreak and ends at back break!'
... not if you do it a little everyday ... like learning Latin!
Cheers now
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Lestie, I haven't seen this thread for awhile. (It came up just before I went off on a trip.) But I don't think St Peter would be impressed about the saintliness of my efforts - with or without mass destruction of nasturtiums - since the head gardener was my spouse, and the garden in question belonged to our house.
But I will admit that there's something rather satisfying about weeding. I couldn't do it now in any case. My knees and back wouldn't tolerate it.
"Free Weeds - U Pick 'Em"
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Ah Gee Boy - we have left the weeds to languish for too long!
"Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed." - Lewis Gannit "For Zen students, a weed is a treasure." - Shunryu Suzuki
Oh yes, there is an argument for it all, weeds are not only to be tolerated.
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