Fairly boring wild buckwheat When is bindweed not bindweed? When it’s wild buckwheat! When wild buckwheat is vining up through your desirable plants, it is fairly mature and can look a lot like bindweed. However, take heart, there are some crucial differences. For one thing, wild buckwheat is MUCH easier to pull up by the […]
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My Backyard Weeds – Ground Cherry
There is a weed that grows seed pods that look like little Chinese lanterns. It is commonly called ground cherry, but it is also known by everything from Mexican husk tomato to gooseberry. The Golden Guide titled Weeds says there are about 80 species under it’s Latin genus of Physalis, but the Handbook of Poisonous […]
My Backyard Weeds – Good versus Bad Grasses
Grasses can be some of the most frustrating weeds around. Even your own lawn can easily become a pernicious weed in flower or vegetable gardens because of roots spreading or not getting adequately trimmed at borders, so that it is left to seed. It helps to learn some about the different kinds of grass, which […]
My Backyard Weeds – Elm Tree Flying Saucer Invasion
My neighbor has three majestic Siberian elm trees on the other side of his field that invade my yard every April with seeds like aliens invade New York. One reason the seeds make me think of an alien invasion is their shape. They are thin disks, with a tiny bulge in the middle where […]
My Backyard Weeds – Black Medic May Be Good for Your Soil
Black medic may be the first weed that I’ve run across that truly has the combination of features to made it a good weed. (click on any photo to enlarge) It is not invasive. That is, in my 20 years on this property, it has never attempted to seriously take over any one spot in […]
