Kochia (tumbleweed) is the number one thing I DONT MISS about living down in America, or anywhere this vile plant grows. We had it in Texas & N. Dakota and every spring you’d want to claw your eyes out due to it’s allergic itch! I hadn’t thought about it for a long time but just the mention of the name😳 gives me another thing to be thankful for this morning!
I was just browsing (procrastinating on some boring work I have to do, actually) and came across your list. I must have 30 varieties of peppers in my seed box and not a single one in common with yours! It amazes me how many different varieties are actually out there compared to a typical seed catalogue’s offerings.
I'm pretty sure that somewhere on the Hudson (or, at least, somewhere that flows into the Hudson), there must be a big patch of European Water Caltrop/Chestnut (Trapa natans) since I have seen the pods wash up on the beach there sometimes. Not that they don't look pretty interesting, but they are called "caltrops" for a reason, and I am sure there are many along the river who's private beach excursions have been made much less pleasant by the presence of those pods vis a vis the bottoms of their feet.Everybody has their own weed nemesis!
I was encouraged watching a gardening program where a couple took a nice rural property--Kentucky?, maybe North Carolina?--and made it a showpiece. They had some kind of non native water weed and managed and are managing to almost eridicate.
Gotta be REALLY HARD to get rid of a plant that is growing in one of your ponds!
Good luck everyone, in your weed battles!
Hip Hip Hooray indeed
I had no idea that those 'cowboy' plants were so awful!? I thought they were just like tangles of inert grass rolling by. Wow, I learn something new every day here!
Beware of Atlantic Pepper Seeds! It's like a GIANT hole and you can fall in and get lost down there! 🤣
I got sucked into seeds specials. I ordered shallot samples and the packaging is so cute!! Little paper sacks with holes, a label on the outside, and folded/stapled down.
