I am trying to generate some shredded paper for my heap and it would go a lot faster if this really irritating fly stopped aiming at my head. Why is there always one and why are they so persistent?
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I was deemed lackadaisical. I had to look it up. Not a matter of googling. When I discovered what It meant, it occurred to me that perhaps my teachers were describing themselves.
I think a bored teacher impressed by their own verbosity will write what they consider to be a bon mot on a child's report without realising the lasting damage that they can do.
Bindweed and stickyweed. Just what in our garden makes it so good for growing them? There's a tree or shrub nextdoor that's virtually overwhelmed by bindweed. Only problem is the weed is now growing over into our shrub and trying to take that over!
I heard a Glyco something painted onto the leaves, combined with something sticky like wallpaper paste, will be the only thing to work? In the meantime until I get what we need I'm mechanically treating it. That means pulling it out.
It doesn't work with stickyweed. Pulled out all out of our greenhouse but two weeks later it's back taking over. A few were over a meter tall behind the table. Our green bin is full of nettles, sticky weed, bindweed, etc. It's better to get it away than composting it I think.
Not sure how to deal with next door's bindweed as it'll only grow through. First sign of growing through the leaves will be painted with the weed death paste. Hopefully it'll kill through the fence to the roots the other side.
My partner said she was just pulling up anything growing into a path. OK! Ten minutes later I had a huge pile of pulled up plants, a ring of cleared path around the lower apple tree and for good measure I cleared inside the ring of plants so the apple tree had no competition? Got a bit carried away, might be in trouble for all that.
My view is is a weed if you don't want it. It's summer, everything is green and grown tall? If yes like that without flower now it's boring and out. Well except for obvious foliage plants. Hostas and the like. If it's growing and spreading like a weed I want it out or at least controlled. Aqualegia growing out of the path or border edge it's out. Growing through the fence it's out. From the side of the greenhouse it's out.
I remember a friend's school report, I think for French, described her as 'a trifle slapdash'. We all thought it was hilarious - and definitely more a reflection of the teacher rather than the pupil.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Never had a problem all paper goes on ours, rolled in balls for air space.
Depends on your compost mix I suppose.
I heard a Glyco something painted onto the leaves, combined with something sticky like wallpaper paste, will be the only thing to work? In the meantime until I get what we need I'm mechanically treating it. That means pulling it out.
It doesn't work with stickyweed. Pulled out all out of our greenhouse but two weeks later it's back taking over. A few were over a meter tall behind the table. Our green bin is full of nettles, sticky weed, bindweed, etc. It's better to get it away than composting it I think.
Not sure how to deal with next door's bindweed as it'll only grow through. First sign of growing through the leaves will be painted with the weed death paste. Hopefully it'll kill through the fence to the roots the other side.
My partner said she was just pulling up anything growing into a path. OK! Ten minutes later I had a huge pile of pulled up plants, a ring of cleared path around the lower apple tree and for good measure I cleared inside the ring of plants so the apple tree had no competition? Got a bit carried away, might be in trouble for all that.
My view is is a weed if you don't want it. It's summer, everything is green and grown tall? If yes like that without flower now it's boring and out. Well except for obvious foliage plants. Hostas and the like. If it's growing and spreading like a weed I want it out or at least controlled. Aqualegia growing out of the path or border edge it's out. Growing through the fence it's out. From the side of the greenhouse it's out.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”