Comments on: I know who plants the weeds

By: violetismycolor

violetismycolor — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:34:01 +0000

Ah, yes…the attack of local wildlife on the garden. I know it well…

By: violetismycolor

violetismycolor — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:47:06 +0000

I hate to tell you this, but that is not the only way these little stinkers plant more weeds in your garden. They eat the seeds and then they fly over unsuspecting gardens and poop them out…weedseeds complete with fertilizer to give them a really good start. Yikes, they’re clever, aren’t they?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:06:07 +0000

I used to be of the philosophy that tomatoes, once they became taller than the weeds, could be left, tomatoes and weeds both, to fend for themselves.

Then one summer morning I went out to the garden to find that the flourishing weeds were taking over the entire back yard, unchecked.

Moral of the story: Weeds may grow faster than you can keep up with them, but unchecked weeds will bury you.

By: Eric Mayer

Eric Mayer — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:21:11 +0000

Very nice snapshot. The back of our yard, where it runs into the woods, I am allowing to go back to nature, which is to say moss and ferns. A better use anyway since it’s too rocky to really mow.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:16:00 +0000

So much of life, it seems, is trying to find the right balance… in gardening, in writing. But it isn’t often that we catch a glimpse of ourselves in the act of balancing. And that finch, I suspect, gave you not only more weeds… but a gift of sorts. A way to understand that our lives–no matter how hard we try to balance them–aren’t always in our control. Thanks for the reminder.

By: cassie-b

cassie-b — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:45:53 +0000

Nature’s gardeners. And they do a really good job of that seed spreading.

Cas

By: Reenie

Reenie — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:24:21 +0000

*Delightful*

Also, thanks for the excuse.