Has anyone had any success with home-made or store-bought organic weed killers? We've experienced almost daily rain for the last 2 mos. and the weeds look like ground cover here. I can't stay on top of them.

 

On a lighter note, last year I wrote about a wonderful and puzzling asclepias which laughed at our 2012 drought and remained green and gorgeous with very little supplemental watering. It is Asclepias tuberosa (lazyssfarm.com is one source) and is just as wonderful now as then even with all this rain. It has a rounded form with small, thin, bright green leaves and stays neat and tidy at about 16" wide and 16" tall. The bright orangey-yellow flowers are prolific and the plants remain in bloom for a long time, from about mid-July to late Sept. here. It's especially pretty with Geranium 'Rozanne' wandering around and I just added some Clematis durandii which will also weave its way around and over things being a prostrate Clematis. I highly recommend this versatile perennial asclepias for form and for color (both flower and foliage)....and it does attract butterflies and one of them was nearly the same color orange as in the flowers....a spectacular sight.

 

Thanks for any help on the weed control.

 

 

Joanie Anderson
35 mi. north of Chicago
zone 5b