#garden weeds

[askwhatsforlunch]

Nettle and Green Onion Rarebit (Vegetarian)

After a few hours spent gardening, sowing, planting, weeding and tilling, how satisfying to return in the kitchen with freshly dug go, and freshly snipped (very carefully, with gloves!) nettle. These Nettle and Green Onion Rarebit, inspired from a recipe in this month's Simple Things, make the harvest all the more delicious! Happy Thursday!

Ingredients (makes 4 slices):

a large Green Onion

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

2 tablespoons plain flour

1 cup semi-skimmed milk

a pinch of fleur de sel or sea salt flakes and freshly cracked black pepper

nutmeg

Mature English Cheddar

4 small slices White Bloomer Bread

1 tablespoon unsalted butter

1 cup freshly picked nettles (wearing gloves), leaves removed from the stalks and thoroughly washed under cold water (wearing rubber gloves!)

Preheat oven to 250°C/480°F.

Finely chop Green Onion.

Melt butter in a medium saucepan over a medium flame. Once butter is just foaming, add chopped Green Onion, and cook, a couple of minutes.

Sprinkle in the flour. Give a good stir, and cook out, 1 minute.

Remove from the heat, and gradually stir in the milk, to prevent lumps, so the mixture is smooth and loose. Return over medium heat, and cook, stirring constantly until the sauce thickens. Once the béchamel thickens, season with fleur de sel and black pepper. Grate in about 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg. Then, grate in 1/3 cup Mature English Cheddar. Give a good stir until melted. Remove from the heat.

Place White Bloomer Bread slices onto a pizza pan, and place in the middle of the hot oven. Toast, at 250°C/480°F, 4 minutes.

Melt butter in a small frying pan over medium-high heat. Once the butter is just foaming, add the nettle leaves, and sauté, a couple of minutes until wilted. Transfer to a chopping board, and chop finely. Stir nettle leaves into the cheesy béchamel.

Flip White Bloomer Bread slices on their other side, and spoon cheesy nettle and green onion béchamel onto each slice. Grate a little more Cheddar on top and return to the hot oven. Bake, at 250°C/480°F, 3 to 4 minutes, until bubbly.

Sprinkle Nettle and Green Onion Rarebit with chopped green part of the Green Onion, and serve immediately, with a glass of chilled white wine, like Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc.

[guess-ill-go-eat-wyrms]

I was making collages w photos from wikimedia and I accidentally made this when I pasted a bunch of photos at once

[encryptedlunacy]

[weedcontrol]

Effective Weed Removal Services for a Pristine Lawn and Garden

Introduction:

Weeds can be a persistent nuisance in your lawn and garden, compromising the beauty and health of your landscape. Removing them effectively requires expertise and a systematic approach. Hiring professional weed removal service can save you time and effort while ensuring a pristine and weed-free environment. This article explores the benefits and features of removal services for your lawn and garden.

Thorough Weed Identification:

Professional weed removal services begin by accurately identifying the different types of weeds present in your lawn and garden. They possess extensive knowledge of various weed species, their growth patterns, and the most effective methods to eradicate them. This expertise allows them to tailor their approach based on the specific weeds plaguing your landscape, ensuring an efficient and targeted removal process.

Specialized Equipment and Techniques:

These services employ specialized equipment and techniques to tackle garden and lawn weeds effectively. They have access to professional-grade tools, such as weed trimmers, cultivators, and selective herbicides. These tools are designed to target and eliminate weeds without harming your desired plants. Professional removalists employ precise techniques, such as spot treatments or manual removal, to ensure that the weeds are eradicated at their source.

Preventive Measures:

In addition to removing existing weeds, professional services also focus on implementing preventive measures. They understand that weed control is an ongoing process and aim to minimize future weed growth in your lawn and garden. They may suggest strategies like mulching, proper watering and fertilization techniques, and regular maintenance to create an environment that discourages weed growth. By taking a proactive approach, weed removal services help you maintain a weed-free landscape in the long run.

Safety and Environmentally Conscious Practices:

Weed removal services prioritize safety and environmentally conscious practices. They are knowledgeable about local regulations and follow proper disposal procedures for weed debris and herbicides. Professional removalists ensure that the removal process is carried out safely, minimizing any potential risks to you, your family, or the environment. They may also offer organic or eco-friendly alternatives to traditional herbicides, promoting a sustainable approach to weed control.

Time and Effort Savings:

Weed removal can be a time-consuming and physically demanding task. By entrusting the job to professionals, you save valuable time and effort. These experts efficiently and systematically remove lawn and garden weeds, allowing you to focus on other aspects of landscaping or enjoy your outdoor space without the hassle of weeding. Their expertise ensures a thorough and effective removal process, eliminating the need for repeated attempts.

Customized Solutions:

Weed removal services offer customized solutions tailored to your specific needs. They assess the extent of weed infestation, the condition of your lawn and garden, and your maintenance preferences to create a personalized plan. Whether you require a one-time weed removal service or ongoing maintenance, professional removalists can accommodate your requirements, helping you achieve and maintain a weed-free landscape.

Conclusion:

Professional weed removal services provide numerous benefits for maintaining a pristine and weed-free lawn and garden. With their expertise, specialized equipment, preventive measures, and commitment to safety and the environment, they ensure effective weed removal. By enlisting their services, you save time and effort while enjoying the beauty of a well-maintained landscape. Trusting professional weed removal services is a worthwhile investment in creating an inviting and weed-free outdoor space.

[fumifooms]

Homegrown

Thistle and Delgal - Dungeon Meshi, Ryoko Kui

^ Fernando Pessoa / Killing Flies, Michael Dickman / A Brother Named Gethsemane, Natalie Diaz / Antigonick, Anne Carson v Oats We Sow, Gregory and the Hawk

[gameraboy2]

Hilda Weeding the Garden by Duane Bryers

[deadbeatdadjokes]

brought to you by all the things people have literally said to me in 100% earnest

[headspace-hotel]

so many of us haven't seen it

we don't encounter it, we can't imagine it, we can't get out of the tomb of apathy because we haven't seen the wonders just beyond their line of sight

I talk about this all the time, but it's because I think about it all the time

There are likely thousands of plants native to the area you live in, and chances are you have never even seen most of them, in your entire life.

Not even rare orchids that only bloom at midnight on a blood moon or some shit—regular flowers. Weeds. They have been systematically eliminated from every single place you ever set foot in, and you have to have a special hobby or line of work to ever even rest your eyes upon the flowers that used to bloom for no one on every hill, or in every valley, or beside every stream

There are a few hundred birds that live where I live. I have never seen most of them before. I have never seen a Kentucky Warbler, and I have lived in Kentucky for what...twenty years?

I have never seen a rosy maple moth. When I saw one on the internet, I didn't even think it was real.

I've become a deeply weird person over the past couple years. Tasting even a little bit of the Wonders changes you. I wouldn't have thought blue bees were real, or the fantastically rainbow-colored dogbane beetles.

I have seen the world beyond the wasteland, and that glimpse makes you crazy.

You or I may have never seen a truly mature tree. A fraction of a percent of the old growth forest of the Eastern USA remains. Once there were tulip poplars over 6 feet in diameter and sycamores well over 10 feet in diameter. Only a few remain, in secret locations. Imagine walking through a forest where the tree trunks are over 3-4 feet wide.

The forest where I work is 100 years old. That's a baby forest.

Knowing that, being aware of that, it's maddening.

Central Kentucky has disproportionately few endemic plants. Almost none. Central Kentucky was the first area west of the Appalachians settled by European colonizers. The Bluegrass was once described as having the most peculiar plant life anywhere in the East, but now, there are no species known that are unique to that area.

Colonization destroyed the canebrakes. (Did you know that we had vast forests of bamboo full of carnivorous plants?) The bamboo is barely hanging on. It destroyed the sycamores so enormous you could use the hollow center of one as a stable for animals. It introduced invasive grasses to feed cattle and horses. It destroyed the rich lush topsoil. Most of the ancient oaks were cut down or died when housing developments were built on top of their roots.

What happened to the endemic species, never recorded in books of herbs, never sketched by a European naturalist.

Either gone forever...or hiding in a sinkhole on a backroad somewhere, not even yet discovered.

So much has been lost for eternity. So much still could be lost.

Some days it's hard not to wail and scream. There are herbicides in your drinking water. When you spread honey on toast, you likely also spread neonicotinoid pesticides, which testing has confirmed to be present in something like 45% of honey. In many areas, insects are immersed in the presence of chemicals designed to kill them in every drop of water, every leaf, every square inch of soil.

When games, animations, and illustrations envision the outdoors, they cover the ground with a short, uniform carpet of green, because that is what we see, no matter where we go: turfgrass cut by a lawn mower. Where I live, there are no natural environments that resemble this, remotely. The closest thing we have to turf-forming grass is our wealth of native sedges, most of which are rare or endangered.

I talked to a man who had devoted his life to studying the American bamboo, Arundinaria gigantea, and he had never seen a canebrake larger than 200x500 feet. Canebrakes once covered ten million acres, and now the bamboo exists in short, straggly clumps instead of dense bamboo forests up to 40 feet tall.

I want to cry and scream. The grief will tear me to pieces. I live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, surrounded by people who can't even grieve, because they have been so completely severed from everything that was lost that they don't even know it was real.

It hurts. It hurts, and we have to live with it. It hurts, and the grief is all-consuming.

There is the agony, and there are the Wonders. Both are true at the same time. It is because nothing around us is standing still; everything in nature is always moving, iterating, becoming. Something is pulling and nudging at our species, urging us to move, to iterate, to become.

So much has been lost. Even more is not lost.

The trees, the bamboo, the sedges, the Kentucky warblers and rosy maple moths.

They are not lost. We are lost.

This is the hard part. The grief is hard, but this is somehow harder for us. We are lost, and it is time to come home.

Not to a physical place, but to a way of living: interconnected, mutualistic, interdependent. Symbiosis. In the forest, no one is separate from anyone else, everyone is linked and dependent on the community. Trees help each other, they support each other, they protect and shelter and feed one another and all living things, and together they are a forest. I don't really consider myself religious, but I have to reserve something in my head for how it felt to realize what Forest was.

When I noticed the little plants popping up in the sidewalk cracks and gravel paths, the tough weeds holding on in the lawns and pavement, something in my brain began to change dramatically and permanently.

They're still here. The trees. Even in the pavement and lawns. The dandelions have come, adapting rapidly, helping the bees hold on. The wildflower seeds are still sprouting in this depleted ground. Waiting for us to recognize them. Life is everywhere. The Forest is everywhere. It felt like they were waiting. We're here. We have not abandoned you. We are resilience, persistence, survival, adaptation. This is not death. This is Chaos. Come home. Come home. Come home.

I saved little plants from the roadside and tended them in plastic cups. I didn't think it would work. I don't know why I tried. I was acting as something bigger than only myself, responding to a call that moves throughout all of nature. But they survived, and growing and tending to my little plants and trees, I—understood.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I believe in Something, whatever it was that seemed to whisper like a secret: Welcome home, Caretaker.

And honestly, truth shone through then from relics of religion I hadn't touched in ages; God put Adam in a garden, not a suburb, a mall, or a Walmart. This is who you are. Not a Consumer, but a Caretaker.

And when the threat of the Flood loomed, God told Noah to start building a fucking boat.

In ecology, the plants we know as "weeds" are pioneer species: the first species to return to an area after a natural disaster or mass extinction. They survive in the harshest conditions, and prepare the land for regeneration. This is who you must become.

Look to the Dandelion—in just a few hundred years on this continent, Dandelion has risen to the highest calling of a Weed: first survive where the others can't, and then help the others survive. If the human species is to survive, you must be a weed species. You must adapt relentlessly, resist eradication, and protect and nurture other life forms by your very nature. You must be tough as nails, and make the world a gentler place through your survival.

Have you heard the saying that grief is love with no place to go?

That's the hard part.

We must grieve, but it is not yet time to grieve. It is time to love.

[geopsych]

Green-headed coneflower with some Joe Pye weed behind it just in bud. I used to know a spot where these grew together by a pond along with cardinal flower and tall meadow rue. A beautiful spot. But these are in my garden (bought from a good source, not dug from the wild).

[shelovesplants]

After dinner joint in the garden 😋 🙌🌼💛💨

[gregorgregor]

[allthingssoulful-garden]

Very, very early morning berry harvest.

Truly, I was done picking them at around 7 am. It's been horribly hot these days, can't do any work in the garden once the sun starts warming up.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 2 October 2024

Solidago canadensis (goldenrod, golden plume, hayfever weed, yellow weed) is an herbaceous perennial plant that can be invasive in a border but is ideal in a meadow or on the edge of a shrub border.

Jill Raggett

[weedcontrol]

Residential Weed Control Services: Say Goodbye to Garden Weeds

Garden weeds can be a frustrating and persistent problem for homeowners. They can quickly take over your garden and compete with your plants for resources, ultimately leading to a less vibrant and healthy outdoor space. At Weed Control Ltd, we understand the challenges of eradicating weeds, which is why we offer effective and organic residential weed control services to keep your garden looking beautiful all year round.

Organic weed control services are an increasingly popular option for homeowners who are looking for a more natural way to eradicate weeds. Unlike traditional chemical-based weed killers, organic weed control services use natural ingredients and techniques to control and prevent the growth of weeds. This approach is not only safer for the environment, but also for your family and pets.

At Weed Control Ltd, we use a combination of hand weeding, mulching, and other organic techniques to eradicate weeds in your garden. Hand weeding involves manually removing weeds from the soil, ensuring that the roots are completely removed to prevent regrowth. Mulching involves placing a layer of organic matter, such as wood chips or leaves, on top of the soil to suppress weed growth.

Our organic weed control services are designed to be both effective and sustainable. By preventing the growth of weeds naturally, we reduce the need for chemical-based weed killers that can harm the environment and your health. Additionally, our techniques promote healthy soil, which is essential for the growth and health of your plants.

At Weed Control Ltd, we understand that every garden is unique, which is why we offer personalized residential weed control services tailored to your specific needs. Our team of experts will assess your garden, identify the types of weeds present, and create a customized plan to eradicate them.

In addition to our organic weed control services, we also offer weed prevention services. By taking proactive steps to prevent weeds from growing, you can save time and money in the long run. We can provide advice on how to maintain your garden to prevent weed growth, as well as install weed barriers and other preventative measures.

If you're looking for a safe and effective way to eradicate garden weeds, contact Weed Control Ltd today. Our organic weed control services are designed to keep your garden looking beautiful and healthy all year round. We are committed to providing personalized and sustainable solutions to meet your specific needs.

Contact Information:

Weed Control Ltd

Patrick O’Shea

Email: weedcontrollimited@gmail.com

WhatsApp: 087-259 5855

[soundleer]

dumb slug hitting the comically large joint

[los-plantalones]

Stellaria media, or chickweed, is often considered a nuisance or just something to throw to the chickens when found outside of its native habitat (Eurasia).

WELL I’m here to tell you that you are missing out on this actually delicious plant. It’s one of my favorite spring greens to eat raw. I pile it on top of sandwiches and use it in salads. It tastes like oak leaf lettuce with a dash of sweetness similar to corn.

Think about this FREE salad ingredient next time you’re looking at a $3 bag of wilty spring mix