Gardening At Night
Sometimes it's best to just take care of your yardwork at midnight. I don't know why that is, but there's something about hacking things apart in the dead of night that appeals to me.
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Anyway, last night faeboy81dc and I went to work on the back yard and finished clearing out the last of the weed infestation we had going on back there. I have yet to be able to identify the noxious plant, but I can show you the picture, and describe it in detail.
This fucker had filled up the entirety of our back yard. The root system is this fibrous network that you can yank up pretty easily from the base. The plants themselves are viciously sticky with very fine serrated leaves. The leaves grow out radially from the stem, and the stem is a concave square. If anyone knows what this is, please let me know in the comments.
The thing spreads like crazy, and my arms got cut up like crazy from pulling this shit up. Yes, I had to pull it out. The weed whacker was not having a fun time with this. But by the end of the night we had rescued (to some degree) the yard. Now we've got this huge pile of waste weeds, vines and tree branches that we need to bag up and haul out.
As I was pulling the weeds out, forcefully by hand, it made me thing of peaceful_fox and the green man festival, and the green man getting all torn apart. That act of ripping out those weeds just drove home the implicit agricultural purpose of that act. You have to weed before you plant. You have to tame to green man, so that you can have your own harvest. And no matter all the times you tear him down, he will always come back.
Beautiful. And yet, also annoying.
oh...
Anyway, last night faeboy81dc and I went to work on the back yard and finished clearing out the last of the weed infestation we had going on back there. I have yet to be able to identify the noxious plant, but I can show you the picture, and describe it in detail.
This fucker had filled up the entirety of our back yard. The root system is this fibrous network that you can yank up pretty easily from the base. The plants themselves are viciously sticky with very fine serrated leaves. The leaves grow out radially from the stem, and the stem is a concave square. If anyone knows what this is, please let me know in the comments.
The thing spreads like crazy, and my arms got cut up like crazy from pulling this shit up. Yes, I had to pull it out. The weed whacker was not having a fun time with this. But by the end of the night we had rescued (to some degree) the yard. Now we've got this huge pile of waste weeds, vines and tree branches that we need to bag up and haul out.
As I was pulling the weeds out, forcefully by hand, it made me thing of peaceful_fox and the green man festival, and the green man getting all torn apart. That act of ripping out those weeds just drove home the implicit agricultural purpose of that act. You have to weed before you plant. You have to tame to green man, so that you can have your own harvest. And no matter all the times you tear him down, he will always come back.
Beautiful. And yet, also annoying.