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--- garden:cultivate:tasks:weed:loathesome [2025/08/22 21:57] – davidbac
+++ garden:cultivate:tasks:weed:loathesome [2025/08/23 00:53] (current) – [Loathesome weeds] 98.97.42.149
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 <note tip>Every weed before its time!</note>
-There are the two most loathsome, sheep sorrel and perslane.
+There are the two most loathsome I encountered in my Fall City gardens:sheep sorrel and perslane.
 ==== Sheep sorrel ====
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 Purslane, formally //portulaca oleracea//, and informally as little hogweed, isn't strictly a weed - some growers cultivate it as a gourmet succulent herb. I've read that purslane contains heart-healthy Omega-3 fatty acids and beta carotene. But I say if you want to grow purslane, you might as well forget growing anything else because it can take over a garden.
-{{ :garden:cultivate:tasks:img_0971rev.jpg?160|}}First, once a purslane seed sprouts and peeks above the soil it has a tenacity of few other weeds. If you pull it up and don't get all of the root, it will send up more leaves. If you leave even a small part of a prslane sprout on moist ground, it will extend roots and continue to grow.
+{{ :garden:cultivate:tasks:img_0971rev.jpg?160|}}First, once a purslane seed sprouts and peeks above the soil it has a tenacity of few other weeds. If you pull it up and don't get all of the root, it will send up more leaves. If you leave even a small part of a purslane sprout on moist ground, it will extend roots and continue to grow.
 {{:garden:cultivate:tasks:img_0972rev.jpg?200  |Purslane growing quickly}}Fragments of the succulent purslane plant reroot easily to give rise to new plants, and larger uprooted plants can mature seed even without re-establishing root systems in the soil. The plant is self-pollinated, and flowers can be fertilized even before they open. Seeds are tiny and long-lived. All of these traits make it difficult to keep purslane from propagating itself massively in a single season.
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 Larger uprooted plants can mature seed even without re-establishing root systems in the soil. The plant is self-pollinated, and flowers can be fertilized even before they open. Seeds are tiny and long-lived. All of these traits make it difficult to keep purslane from propagating itself in cultivated fields and gardens. So you see that purslane is insidious.
+==== Discovered in Graham ====
+Working on our property in Graham exposed me to even more troublesome plants, each with its own claim to infamy, some so problematic that they should be eradicated. This is easier said than done!
+=== Dock weed ===
+Prolific seeding, invasive and difficult to control. Seeds remain viable up to 60 years.
+=== Plantain ===
+Prolific seeding, invasive and difficult to control. Seeds remain viable up to 20 years.
+=== Canadian thistle ===
+Prolific seeding, invasive and difficult to control. See [[garden:cultivate:tasks:weed:thistles|Canadian Thistles]].
+=== Common Tansy ===
+Toxic to humans and cattle, ?????
+=== Creeping sedge rush ===
+Invasive and difficult to control, can take over a wetland and thrive in wet soil.
+=== Reed canary grass ===
+Invasive and difficult to control. Thrives next to wetland areas.
+<note warning>As with less toxic plants such as sheep sorrel and purslane, I don't leave these especially difficult weeds lying on the ground and I don't put them in a compost pile. The place for these loathsome weeds is in yard waste that is hauled **__far far away__** from the garden.
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