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Forget-me-nots
May. 11th, 2012 10:26 pm
Currently at Toronto Pearson: 15. High today: 22. Looks like the weather has turned a corner today; should be mostly 20+ highs from here until September.
Every time I look at the stuff growing in the gardens and wonder what's what, I think of a joke I saw on some gardening forum a few weeks ago: The easiest way to tell a weed from a valuable plant is to try to pull it out of the ground. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. Actually, one of the most painful lessons for the novice gardener to learn is that you need to be careful pulling weeds around your valuable plants, because they may be attached. That's how I lost my honeydew melon plant last year, not that it was likely to produce any edible melons anyway.
Last year there were forget-me-nots growing in the gardens. This year, there are forget-me-nots growing everywhere but the gardens. (Well, a few are growing in the gardens ... a few fewer than yesterday, when I pulled some out along with some goldenrod.) Here are a few growing in the cracks between some patio stones in our backyard (which is to say, some patio stones actually serving as some kind of patio; there are broken patio stones all over our backyard, serving various purposes or none):
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Every time I look at the stuff growing in the gardens and wonder what's what, I think of a joke I saw on some gardening forum a few weeks ago: The easiest way to tell a weed from a valuable plant is to try to pull it out of the ground. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. Actually, one of the most painful lessons for the novice gardener to learn is that you need to be careful pulling weeds around your valuable plants, because they may be attached. That's how I lost my honeydew melon plant last year, not that it was likely to produce any edible melons anyway.
Last year there were forget-me-nots growing in the gardens. This year, there are forget-me-nots growing everywhere but the gardens. (Well, a few are growing in the gardens ... a few fewer than yesterday, when I pulled some out along with some goldenrod.) Here are a few growing in the cracks between some patio stones in our backyard (which is to say, some patio stones actually serving as some kind of patio; there are broken patio stones all over our backyard, serving various purposes or none):
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