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WEEDS ARE PLANTS!

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    That would mollify meimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Obelixx says:

    Well, we could then add a rider that a weed is just a plant you don't want or don't like.

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    How very Alan Titchmarsh of you Ob image

    I asked a slug as I dropped it into a bucket why it didn't eat the bittercress. Answer came there none

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    I can't tell you how many slugs I chucked into the road to be splatted RG.  In this garden it's snails.  Much easier to lob.  

    Last edited: 19 April 2017 22:26:36

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093

    Slugs aren't very aerodynamic. Not that I've tried you understand. Err image

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254

    Slugs are animals.image

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    Lobbing and splatting beats salting or snipping RG.

    So are vine weevils, aphids, lily beetles and their like, Papi Jo.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053

    As my snails mysteriously launch themselves out of my garden and crash into the church wall next door with a satisfying, to me, crunch, I do tend to fleetingly have a 'poor snail' thought, but only fleetingly.as I think if they had got their trajectory a but lower they might have landed on the grass verge instead. Conversely, I have no compunction about consigning hundreds of bluebell bulbs into my brown bin. Nor any errant dandelions. Never do I think 'poor misguided plant - you thought you were a fine example of your species but I just think you are a weed'!  Bad person gardener. 

    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Pj, slugs in my garden are 90% plant.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Logan4Logan4 Posts: 2,590

    A weed is a plant where it shouldn't be.

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