Harvested my romaine today since it’s going to be pretty warm today and it’s starting to look a little tall and floppy. Yay, this year I did this before it totally bolted and got bitter and gross! Downside to the early warm weather is a shorter greens season. The mesclun is still doing OK though. I think the spinach is about to bolt too so I should cut that down and use it in something.
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The morning glory is doing its damnedest to take over our entire yard. I don’t have the physical capacity to dig out the entire yard – like 300 sqft (28 sq m for the Aussies) and it’s heavy clay and digging just a foot deep and a foot wide literally takes me an hour. I can’t dig out all the roots. However, I also want it gone, because it’s fucking up all the other plants.
On a scale of 1 to fucking invasive noxious weeds, how bad would it be to paint glyphosate on this shit? I’m usually very anti-pesticide, and I’ve never even used neem oil, but my vendetta against the bindweed is strong. Is glyphosate painted onto the leaves/stems of the morning glory likely to leach into the soil and kill the plants I want to encourage, like my vegetables and my alstromeria? I know that there are concerns about Roundup damaging the soil microbiome; this wouldn’t be a long-term application scheme (like for farming), just spot targets on the morning glory. Is that still concerning for soil health?
(The cat doesn’t eat morning glory and it would be pretty easy to apply the stuff at night when she’s inside, so that she doesn’t contact it when it’s wet. If there’s good evidence showing it’s just totally unsafe for cats, like if they lay on it even after it’s dried, then this is an obvious no-go)
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Smaller use: cut it off at or near soil line and paint just the cut ends.
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This is my plan for both the morning glory and the bougainvillea in my yard 
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Ok. So I am not completely crazy to use glyphosate on this ish.
(I’m very wary of pesticides but I just… it’s everywhere, you guys, it’s driving me MAD.)
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Used in this manner and in a targeted fashion is not terribly dangerous. Follow the dilution instructions and wear gloves and maybe a mask (if you can find one right now). Apply in the morning and avoid flowers in the yard. Check to see if it has a max temp for application - some herbicides will volatilize above… I want to say around 80 degrees?.. which is bad news (but I can’t remember if glyphosate is one of them). Once it is dry it will not volatilize, it’s only while it is still wet, so as long as you do it before the heat of the day it should dry long before then). It will not effect any plants it does not have direct contact with (with the volatilization caveat above). I’ve heard it is more effective for bindweed to not cut it, as the uptake into the plant is through the leaf surfaces, and by cutting the stem you are slowing that way down and it will take more successive applications to eventually kill it. Many people use the “paint the leaves” method to restrict it to just the target plant. Know that it will take multiple applications to completely kill it.
I had terrible bind weed in UT and literally nothing else killed it and it grew unchecked otherwise. It was far too extensive and the roots go far too deep to dig out in heavy soils, and the more you break the roots (in the soil) the more new plants grow from the pieces. It is not unreasonable to use glyphosate in this situation.
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Thank you all for the reassurance, information, and personal experiences!
I look forward to murdering noxious weeds.
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I got this plant in a swap, I thought it was labeled as arugula but it doesn’t look like it. Anyway, I’m eating it. Hope it’s not poisonous.
Harvested two whole snap peas today and 3 bok choy leaves yesterday. They shriveled up into tiny splats of green in our stir fry. Now, if you could eat potato greens, I’d be in fucking business.
Hydrangea is just starting to turn blue:
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I know lettuce when I see it.
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Well aren’t you Mr. Fancy.
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So… I’m realizing that I’ve never eaten lettuce? I’ve had romaine, and iceberg, and spinach, and arugula, and various other greens, but never basic bitch green leaf lettuce. Blowing my mind a tiny bit.
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I’d call it a loose leaf lettuce.
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Maybe a butter lettuce?
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Possibly some kind of cos lettuce they hasn’t formed a head yet?
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Definately not Iceberg.
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The color and shape look like butter lettuce to me too
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Me too
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Question! Can you over fertilize flowers with miracle gro?
Thank you for all the lettuce speculation!
Harvest from our garden (bok choy, peas), a volunteer garden (strawberries), and the wild (cherries, mulberries). My first mulberry ever! It was ok.
Weekly bell pepper:
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Those are the longest mulberries I’ve ever seen! I’ve been enjoying the ones in my alley.
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