It's satisfying pulling out weeds that pull out but less so when you have to dig out a 2 foot tap root
From what Joyce Goldenlily says it sounds as though the fields round her are just left to run wild and I imagine that results in brambles, nettles, docks, bindweed etc. I would hate to have too much of that sort of weed invading my garden, you have my sympathy JG.
I rather prefer the strip of uncultivated land along side our property. It provides a barrier to the sprays which they use on the land, killing everything from aphids to something beginning with 'Z'. So we get weeds, we get them from the roadside verges as well, every time a vehicle goes past they spread the seeds. We live with it.
Mind I could do without the ground elder which comes off the road side verge.
A few years ago farmers were criticised for ploughing all the way to the edge of their fields and not leaving wildlife areas. Now they are leaving wildlife areas and are being criticised for that.
Has the OP always lived in the country or have they moved out there I wonder?
Farming is big business and some are bigger than others. Of course they do what they do for money. I used to do what I did for money until I retired but my job wasn't 24/7 most of the year with horrendous paperwork to deal with on top of that
there are some that are still whimsical, the farmer beside us has a witch hazel in the middle of his field. Every year he ploughs and sows in a perfect oval round it. This winter it blew down, he left it where it was and is still going round it. Apparently its bad luck to interfere with it
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It's satisfying pulling out weeds that pull out but less so when you have to dig out a 2 foot tap root
From what Joyce Goldenlily says it sounds as though the fields round her are just left to run wild and I imagine that results in brambles, nettles, docks, bindweed etc. I would hate to have too much of that sort of weed invading my garden, you have my sympathy JG.
I rather prefer the strip of uncultivated land along side our property. It provides a barrier to the sprays which they use on the land, killing everything from aphids to something beginning with 'Z'. So we get weeds, we get them from the roadside verges as well, every time a vehicle goes past they spread the seeds. We live with it.
Mind I could do without the ground elder which comes off the road side verge.
A few years ago farmers were criticised for ploughing all the way to the edge of their fields and not leaving wildlife areas. Now they are leaving wildlife areas and are being criticised for that.
Has the OP always lived in the country or have they moved out there I wonder?
Farming is big business and some are bigger than others. Of course they do what they do for money. I used to do what I did for money until I retired but my job wasn't 24/7 most of the year with horrendous paperwork to deal with on top of that
there are some that are still whimsical, the farmer beside us has a witch hazel in the middle of his field. Every year he ploughs and sows in a perfect oval round it. This winter it blew down, he left it where it was and is still going round it. Apparently its bad luck to interfere with it
Haven't heard that one before but it's probably in the name, witch hazel. You can't be too careful ........