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My Backyard Weeds – Wild Buckwheat Poses as Bindweed

June 8, 2018 by Laura Blodgett Leave a Comment

My Backyard Weeds – Wild Buckwheat Poses as Bindweed

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 […]

My Backyard Weeds – Ground Cherry

May 16, 2017 by Laura Blodgett Leave a Comment

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 […]

Making Notes in the Fall for Winter Garden Research

September 7, 2016 by Laura Blodgett Leave a Comment

Making Notes in the Fall for Winter Garden Research

In the middle of winter, we long for our gardens. It seems like the only thing to do is either dream as we look through catalogs and books, plant things too early in the greenhouse, or break shovels in the frozen ground. Instead, we should spend some time each fall planning for what we want […]

My Backyard Weeds – Good versus Bad Grasses

July 14, 2016 by Laura Blodgett 2 Comments

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 […]

Gardening Properly with Property Lines

June 1, 2016 by Laura Blodgett Leave a Comment

Gardening Properly with Property Lines

Borders and property lines. Everyone has them if you have any kind of garden space. These demarcations present unique problems, with both a physical and social implications. You can save yourself trouble and heartache by being aware of a few things. (click on any photo to enlarge) 1. Property lines mean a mingling of plants. […]

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