Beautiful photos, as usual! What a great day to be outside, wasn't it!
And because of you guys, I pulled up all the garlic mustard from my yard! I felt a little guilty, but I do know how it can overrun things. But I picked some of the leaves and made myself a garlic mustard salad, complete with red wine vinegar salad dressing, and it tasted like the spring salad mix you buy in the grocery!
So I guess by taking nourishment from that which I was about to kill, I somehow in my mind did not feel so badly about pulling all of it up! :)
it was a little too chilly for me to be totally satisfied, but it wasn't too horrible.
we picked a bunch of garlic mustard that we saw in the arboretum (there was a LOT of it). i know what you mean though, i always feel genocidal when i pull the maple sprouts that grow on our property but if i didn't, there'd be nothing but maple trees!
the new leaves are totally thrilling me this spring - seems like the trees have taken forever to get leaves - there are still 20% of them that are still bare.
Beautiful pictures... I like the second picture, it really shows that spring has arrived. I got told off one year by two ladies, obviously just arrived from Britain, because I was pulling up the lupine seedlings in our local bush! They didn't think my reason was valid - that lupins are not native plants here and that they overgrow everything so that the native plants can't grow.
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And because of you guys, I pulled up all the garlic mustard from my yard! I felt a little guilty, but I do know how it can overrun things. But I picked some of the leaves and made myself a garlic mustard salad, complete with red wine vinegar salad dressing, and it tasted like the spring salad mix you buy in the grocery!
So I guess by taking nourishment from that which I was about to kill, I somehow in my mind did not feel so badly about pulling all of it up! :)
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we picked a bunch of garlic mustard that we saw in the arboretum (there was a LOT of it). i know what you mean though, i always feel genocidal when i pull the maple sprouts that grow on our property but if i didn't, there'd be nothing but maple trees!
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I got told off one year by two ladies, obviously just arrived from Britain, because I was pulling up the lupine seedlings in our local bush! They didn't think my reason was valid - that lupins are not native plants here and that they overgrow everything so that the native plants can't grow.
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