Hi Skeeter
@Skeets1957
With experience, you will eventually learn to recognize the most common weeds in your garden. You'll learn which ones have to have the roots removed.
It may seem at first that there's an endless variety and supply of different weeds. But every garden has its own local "ecosystem" of weed seed sources.
When I gardened in the suburbs, my little plots and beds were surrounded by grass lawns. After keeping the beds free of weeds going to seed for about 3 years, very few weeds showed up after that. I was surrounded mostly by non-gardeners with well-kept lawns and landscapes. You might have that experience if you keep after those weeds!
Now I live in the country on 5 acres. The supply of weed seeds is endless. They blow in from weedy fields and roadsides or get dropped by birds who ate them somewhere else.
We purposely allowed part of the property to go "wild". So we are our own source of some of the seeds. Like
@stone, we enjoy the tremendous variety of birds that live here or migrate through.
We make as much effort as we can to keep the less desirable weeds from seeding. Ornithologists say that honeysuckle is not nutritious for the birds although they readily eat the sugary berries. So we try to keep those from maturing.
