Weeeellll, Rick, I have been known to use plastic topped with gravel to keep the weeds from totally taking over my garden. And even then, it's still a major battle to keep ahead of the weeds. But we're surrounded by open fields just full of thistles and other nasty unpleasant stuff. Not to mention the alfalfa that keeps trying to encroach. But I have another reason to prefer the Latin names over common ones, and not just for plants. There is a particularly nasty malady that affects goats and pigs and probably various other critters. The proper medical name is Enterotoxemia. But the common name is "Overeating Disease." Sounds pretty innocuous, eh? If you want to avoid it, just don't overfeed your critters, right? WRONG! It's deadly and nearly totally avoidable (there's a vaccine). And it has nothing to do with "overfeeding." One of my neighbors raises pigs and he's convinced that you can kill a baby pig by feeding it too much. Uh, they're PIGs! Eating is what they do. Sigh.
