What's sprouting, what are you pulling @ your house? What's got your rear in the air, your knees on the ground, your back aching, the foul language flowing, @ your house?
As soon as the ephemeral spring weeds disappear, like chickweed, cleavers, Carolina Geraniums, here comes the real weeds, the summer ones.
All of the following fooled me with interesting foliage, and in the case of the Commelina, curiosity.
In my yard, the chamber bitters are starting.
Leaving just one of these unpulled will result in hundreds more next year. They are not hard to pull, but pulling hundreds of anything that doesn't sprout until it gets hot, really stinks.
These are also sprouting, but haven't been as aggressive, or maybe I've been more aggressive pulling them, not totally sure:
I need to take a pic of a seedling of this horrible weed Commelina that looks cute in pics but is not in person. Let just one go to seed and there will be at least 100 next year:
Cudweed. A perennial that will adapt to growing so low that mowing doesn't bother it. Not that I care if it's in the lawn, but the seeds make their way into cultivated areas and these are hard to pull.
This awful thing, trampweek, looks like fur or hair if left to its own devices, and the rosettes can take up a lot of space.
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Smilax seedlings are easy to pull, right up until they are not. If you don't want thorny briars in your cultivated areas, look for and pull these before they form a tuber:
Cherry laurels are beautiful trees, but if you garden near one, you could end up with a literal carpet of sprouts. I've tried taking a pic of seedlings before but there are so many, it just looks like a generic ground cover.
Never let dollarweed get near your garden. Once it gets in, you may not be able to get rid of it. I've been battling this for years and it WON'T STOP showing up. I'm having to re-smother a spot where I've been gardening for a few years. The round leaves are very attractive, but unmowed dollarweed "dollars" can get really tall, too tall to be a worthwhile ground cover under shrubs:
Inch plant. Will never stop creeping, ever, right over other plants because it grows so much faster than just about anything else. Easy to pull up, but impossible to do a thorough job of it, grows faster than I can pull.
And the version that blooms is so much harder to pull up, it gets much more strongly rooted, breaks much more easily
I have a very live'n'let'live attitude about plants, and I'm not saying that these plants have no inherent value of some kind, but any of the ones I've discussed would literally take over the plants I'm purposely cultivating and inhibit them so much that they would not survive. I can't NOT pull these and still have a cultivate garden.
I'm probably forgetting some but these are how I spent my weekend, pulling them. If anyone spots a very first sprout of any of these and pulls it before they have an invasion next year, this post will have been worthwhile.
