Gardening Rule:

[lolliepop]

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

[carlott]

If it comes back after napalming the area it's a weed.

[Sharon Sharealike]

If it breaks yer back as you fall over backwards pulling it out - its a weed!

[TerriTalks]

Hi Lollie

Well I am saying nothing for obvious reasons I do not know my flowers from my weeds.
Your post made me smile thanks!

Love

TerriTalks xxxx

[lily]

lolliepop said:

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

There speaks the voice of experience...been there, done that Lollie

xxx

[smiffy]

lolliepop said:

When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

Another rule is not to ask my hubby to weed. So far he has removed from one garden or another: a plant given to us by an elderly lady who died three days before he gardened, baby beetroots, ornamental grasses (they were blue for ****sake!), and numerous herbs.

He is good at cutting the grass, digging holes and watering!

[revmichael]

My son in law has tided up their garden.
Where I had planted some lovely aqualegias which I had grown from seed there is now a lovely clean part of soil.

A neighbour has told me, 'If there's more than one of it, then I assume that it's a weed, and pull it up.'

[carlott]

My Father in Law used to plant stuff in our garden unbidden. My wife and I used to pull them up as a matter of course.

He once planted loads of seed then a load more as the first lot did not germinate - result they all did Action - gave them away to friends and oh yes and back to FiL

Our garden, our style, our plants.

[Tigger]

As they say 'a weed is a plant in the wrong place'.

Does this apply to trees?

[revmichael]

I have what I like to call a 'cottage garden effect' - i.e. lots of plants growing all over the place.

Soemtimes it even looks quite nice - especially in around June when all of the roses are in full bloom.

[carlott]

I think - from what you have shown us - that your garden is lovely. Better, in my opinion, than an over manicured one.

[meltemi]

Weeds? I don't have them...but then I do have weather permitting a near-daily look over the micro plot & pots...

Plants in the wrong place? Lots...if in doubt I leave them for thememsahib to make an executive life or death decision...

this lead to some interesting feathery weeds from the bird-table seed...bit worried by the police helicopter overhead...