My battle with chickweed

[catjac1975]

Some of you may remember my whining about chickweed.I am half way through the worst of it. See the before and after in some daylily beds.

 

[catjac1975]

 

[thistlebloom]

Whoa! You have a LOT of daylilies girl! That's a lot of weeding too, looks great! I bet your back is aching and your hands are sore about now. Your soil looks wonderful.

 

[baymule]

Why is it called chickweed? Your daylillies look awesome! Would love to see a pic of when they are all blooming. I bet you have a lot of different colors too!

 

[catjac1975]

I am guessing because chicks love it. But why is anything named the way it is? I feed it to the horses after pulling and they too love it. My back is aching and I have way to much to do! What you see is a fraction-the rest is not yet done. The biggest problem with chickweed is it grows all winter no matter how cold it gets. I read it was brought by the early settlers-it is edible though I have not tried it. I started with the worst weed filled beds.

 

[so lucky]

If it tasts like it smells, no thank you; I'll pass on the chickweed salad. Even my chickens don't like it. The only saving grace is that it is easy to pull up.

 

[secuono]

That's why you have rabbits or pigs!

 

[seedcorn]

That's why you have rabbits or pigs!

IF I had them it would be because of fried rabbit and bacon.....

 

[so lucky]

My grand daughter was using all her 12 year old persuasive powers to try to get me to buy a rabbit last week. I probably would have if I had a cage. Rabbit poop is garden magic, even more so than chicken poop. At least I would have lots of chickweed to feed it.

 

[897tgigvib]

Can you do a local manual extinction of the chickweed by getting it all and keeping up with the seed sprouting? hand pulling and picking...