Propinquity helps

Spent the entire morning weeding today and I still haven't finished yet. There are a lot of weeds. Carpets of wood sorrel are going to seed but luckily I got to them just before the seeds are dispersed (after which there is NO HOPE). I also dug up a bunch of something probably closely related to miner's lettuce (family "Portulacaceae" -- forgot what it'll get merged into), which is edible, but still weedy. There's also loads of something from Polygonaceae and, of course, invasive grasses. On the bright side our backyard is still bermuda-grass-free. Once THOSE things get established removing them is impossible.

Finally torn down the dead sweet peas (as in yellow-and-dried dead), I'm not entirely sure why my parents kept it there for so long, since keeping dead plant material, when they're not in a compost heap (I miss my worm bin; mom doesn't) tends to breed diseases. The four o' clocks are semi-bolting and so I trimmed them a bit too. Next on the list is getting ALL the calendula seeds harvested (still going to have a giant row of them by the door next year, though) and pull up some sweet alyssums. They've gone and ate my daffodils & paper whites again.

Carnations are blooming though. We have white ones and pink ones. I'm not sure how harvesting the seeds will work out, but we'll see.