Tag: weeds

  • Hemlock?

    What’s the big deal about hemlock anyway?

    Apparently hemlock is a BFD. Five or six leaves, ingested, will kill an adult. The roots and seeds are even more poisonous than the leaves. Even when dry and dead, the plant will remain highly toxic for THREE YEARS. So…here’s the question…are the weeds at the garden hemlock or some mimic?

    Both google and our plant identification app indicate that this is Santa Maria, also known as Parthenium hysterophorus, and while it causes horrible things like a lack of tomato yield and contact dermatitis, it is not going to kill us. 🏅

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  • One Rain

    It just takes one rain to make everything leap ahead in growth. Also, it just takes one rain to make the weeds in unoccupied plots go from ~12 inches high to 4 feet. I wish I had taken pictures but we harvested a cucumber and patty pan squash today, not out of desire, but out of necessity. That’s a first! Also Sophie installed a huge pinwheel.

    Still waiting on the city to tell us whether we can have the 3 plots full of weeds to turn into our root garden and also to tell us what they can do to help with the scourge of chiggers. We haven’t been able to bask in our garden since the chiggers arrived. It’s hard on all of us, but especially Jeromey who reacts harshest to the bites.

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