Garden Weeds

Garden Weeds Source Near Me

Well, today, I decided to take another hour and go out to work in the back gardens. Yesterday I got the lawn furniture uncovered and the covers stored, and I took down the Sweet Autumn clematis that had overgrown the south side of the garden by the wall. I actually cut it down to the ground. We will see if it comes back. After three years of neglect on my part: never trimming, it had become unruly. However, it provided a fantastic privacy fence, so I hope it returns.

As you can see, some of my weeds are coming from the garden on the other side of my wall. Unfortunately, not much one can do about that, but my neighbor has health issues, so allowances must be made. I also have multiple bird feeders, which are a source for my weed generation.

Ohio Weeds

I never paid attention to what they name weeds or how they grow here in Ohio. In Ireland, we had some horrible invasive plants: bindweed and the infamous Japanese Knotweed. I spent a great deal of time trying to get them under control. Finally, I learned best bet was just to go out and pull them everyday.

Today in my garden, I found the old reliables: dandelion, chickweed, crabgrass, and spurge, and that flat-like mat-like of green you see on the patio and in the garden.
This year I found a new weed and learned it was as nasty as nasty can be. It looked so pretty, a clump of green leaves with tiny white flowers. I thought of letting it stay in the garden. It seemed so lovely. My mistake!!

I was talking on the phone with my gardening friend. She told me how she got half her garden weeded yesterday, etc. I told her I was starting that job, and I found this pretty cluster-like plant with tiny white flowers. I told her I was considering letting them stay in the garden like a wildflower. Oh NOOO, she exclaimed!!! You HAVE to get rid of them. Those white flowers burst if you barely touch them and shoot seeds up to three feet away from the plant, and the new plants start quickly and grow like a weed!! I’m sorry for the pun. Haha. SEE Bittercress

Patio

I decided to weed the garden in groups. Today my job was going to be the rose bed and the patio. All sorts of things have spouted in the patio courtyard between the flagstones. The people who put in the stones did a terrible job laying them, and I will have to find a solution sometime soon. For now, I have stones with weeds growing around them or areas without sand between the stones, just open spaces.

The patio fiasco really has me depressed and angry. The condo association recommended this company for landscaping and outside maintenance. But now I hear he really flimflammed a group of residents. Myself included. He did have a stone mason put down the bricks, but the patio building was not something the man did. I recently found out that photos of the completed patios he showed me before we started were completed by someone he hired in the past. So be careful out there, guys. Oh, needless to say, he is no longer recommended by the association. It seems he botched up a job for them too.

I have since found a weed spray that has killed most of the weeds, and we just keep pulling any new weeds we find. It looks much better now, and I still have to decide how to address the open areas. I have applied concrete sand for patios, but the rain washes it away each season. I am informed that the gaps need to be much smaller between the stone for the concrete sand. Perhaps filling in with sand might work, but for now, I am leaving it as is.

Plans for future

II learned when weeds grow in significant clusters like that; they not only take over the look of the garden, they rob the soil of the nutrient needed by the flower you planted. Weeds are aggressive, and by stealing your soil’s nutrients, garden plants will not grow as vigorously as you want, nor will they flower as well.

Once the weeds are gone, I need to redesign the garden. I removed the rose garden from the front; it sat in the hot sun the entire day and the roses went dorment for the extreme heat last summer.

Rose garden in front of raised wood bed

I was able to take the roses from the front bed and incorporate them into the the main garden as seen to the right of the patio. I added a couple of peonies and small hydrangea. I just added a dwarf/miniature forsythia. Hopefully by planting in the Spring it will have time to get strong to last our winters. The hydrangea and camilla I planted last fall did not survive the Ohio winter.

To fill in the open areas, I am thinking about allowing for more wildflowers and other blooming perennials. Not only will they attract hummingbirds and butterflies, but the garden will look richer and as a bonus less room for weeds!