Snow; Weeds

    Oops -- sorry; that last E-mail (the blank one) was supposed to be
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    The snow is sticking. To think that yesterday it was warm (high 60s)
and we were outside working on the garden.
    There are more weeds than last year, and that's saying a lot!. I
decided to remove shallow-rooted weeds by hand but spray the tap-rooted
weeds with herbicide. At the store we went over the Ortho picture chart,
pointing out the weeds we recognized from our lawn and garden:
"Chickweed. We've got that." "Quack grass; got that." "Got that." "Got
that." "And that." "Got LOTS of that." "Got that." etc. We determined
that our garden has virtually every weed known to science.
    I have also decided that there is no herbicide that works on onion
grass or other weeds that have bulbs to store energy. And if you simply
pull the onion grass out of the lawn, lots of little bulblets fall off
and stay behind in the soil. I think the only thing that works is to dig
up the entire clump and dispose of it, soil and all.

Janet Yang
Riverside, Connecticut, USA
Zone 6, on the coast
nothing but clay, clay, and more clay

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