As soon as a gardener declares an area to be a garden and plants that first plant, it is time to start weeding and removing plants that are not part of the garden plan. This is because a garden is not made just by adding plants, though this is a major pleasure of gardening. A garden is also made by removing plants.
Are you familiar with the Hierarchy of Weeding and Plant Removal?
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Showing posts with label weeding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weeding. Show all posts
Speed weeding
Weeding at top speeds approaching more than 20 weeds a minute, I speed weeded my way through a large garden area called The Shrubbery.
I did not stop to choose a special tool and dig up any weeds. I pulled and tugged as fast as I could and if a weed didn't give up its grip of the earth with a solid tug, I cut it off at ground level. Fast, faster, fastest I went, until I had cleared the area
I did not stop to choose a special tool and dig up any weeds. I pulled and tugged as fast as I could and if a weed didn't give up its grip of the earth with a solid tug, I cut it off at ground level. Fast, faster, fastest I went, until I had cleared the area
A call to weed
There comes a time when you must plunge into the depths of the garden border and pull the weeds.
Pull the thistle rising above the rest of the flowers, catching it just as it is ready to burst into bloom and spew its seed about the garden. No matter that it is growing up through the middle of a massive rose. Pull it out.
Pull the perennial sweet pea vines creeping along the ground, snaking
Garden Design Update: Making Plant Choices
I spent yesterday outside gardening in the garden, and only took one picture showing Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokova’ with bits of Snow-in-summer, Cerastium tomentosum, growing with it. The snow-in-summer is the one with the grayish-green narrow leaves. In the lower center are the tips of the maroon leaves of Hecheura x villosa ‘Mocha’ (more on that later).
In the morning I weeded out the
In the morning I weeded out the
I Practice Multiple Types of Weeding, Sometimes All At The Same Time
Is weeding in flower beds that are hopefully going to be dug up and expanded soon sort of like dusting the furniture in a house right before you plan to tear down walls for remodeling? No?
Good, because I spent quite a bit of time yesterday weeding in my flower beds, beds I hope will soon be dug up and enlarged significantly with the new garden design.
What else was I supposed to do while I
Good, because I spent quite a bit of time yesterday weeding in my flower beds, beds I hope will soon be dug up and enlarged significantly with the new garden design.
What else was I supposed to do while I