Coffee

[baymule]

Coffee is ready, on my second cup. High of 95 today and 96% humidity. I’ve got to sort out some sheep this morning, maybe set a round bale of hay and mow goatweed in the middle field. I’ll stop and take plenty of breaks for ice water and cooling off.

 

[flowerbug]

looking that one up. not sure which one you're talking about as there seem to be a lot of different varieties all called the same thing.

horny goat weed as a herbal medicine for ED... yeehaw! um, no, i won't be growing that one.

it doesn't seem to be around this area.

 

[digitS']

mow goatweed

a lot of different varieties

I think of "goatsbeard" when Bay' mentions that weed. That's another name for salsify but, from the way salsify grows around here, it probably doesn't like locations where it has tons of rain.

Well, maybe it might –– what do I know? I have trouble imagining how or why people forage for salsify roots –– scrawny little things. I have a neighbor who has tons of goatbeard growing in his yard. He is a renter, I'm sure. The owners moved about 150 miles away and, I doubt, ever visit. The guy was an up-&-coming attorney so what's this little old house in this neighborhood mean to him? Still, he and his wife spent good money bringing in grass sod because the house sat empty and neglected through a time when watering was needed. That new grass is dead ... the new guys ran a sprinkler but didn't seem to know what the heck was required to keep bluegrass alive. A real mess after a one season so their answer was to just stop bothering to water, hence it now grows goatsbeard, cheatgrass and knotweed. At least, the guy has been out mowing it a few times.

Steve, running sprinklers this AM