Yes the weeds are taking over. It’s been too hot and too dry to do much of anything about them. I got one big bed cleared after a bit of rain last week but everywhere else it’s sad flowers and lots of weeds.
You're not alone. I wish some of our plants grew as well as the weeds do. There is one that is especially difficult to deal with as it sends runners out everywhere, and if I root it out today it will be back tomorrow. It has cooled off some, so maybe I can make a small dent in the weed population today.
Yup, struggling, and losing the battle. Mulch does help, in gardens, if you pile it thick enough. And putting cardboard, or layers of newspaper under the mulch helps as well. But my lawn, I'm sure, is sending out invitations for weeds to move in, because they seem to be taking over.
You should see our lawn. There is more clover than there is grass.Yup, struggling, and losing the battle. Mulch does help, in gardens, if you pile it thick enough. And putting cardboard, or layers of newspaper under the mulch helps as well. But my lawn, I'm sure, is sending out invitations for weeds to move in, because they seem to be taking over.
That's exactly what's running rampant in my lawn. And since it spreads by rhizomes, digging it out is almost impossible. I wouldn't really mind, except it's squeezing out what grass blades I have growing. Then where there isn't clover, there's chickweed. It's just sad and pathetic how impossible it is to have a nice grass lawn these days.
That's the other problem, we keep have low rain summers, which have even led to water restrictions, so again, grass suffers, and weeds that like the heat move in and thrive.
No, because it hasn't gotten that bad yet. I have been overseeding with a heat-tolerant seed blend, but I think the only way to 'win' is to convert more lawn to raised growing beds using such drought-tolerant plants as coneflowers, black-eyed Susan, and others. The tomatoes get a quart of water apiece each morning, and they are mulched with compost to retain moisture. As for the lawn, it can fend for itself. I don't water it, and I don't know of very many others who do.
Where it is in the flower beds, I have to pull the individual clover plants by hand, as there are hundreds of shallow-planted bulbs like the dwarf crocus, and to use a cultivator would be to unearth them, and I really don't want to have to replant all of them. Plus, clover is sneaky. It hides under the greenery of the good plants and takes moisture away from them. If I was running a farm, I would welcome clover for it's nitrogen-fixing properties, which enriches the soil. As a gardener? Not so much.
The clover that we grew on the farm was the red clover. What is taking over my lawn is the white clover.Clover is just awful.Hard to believe there was a time we liked seeing it, and would search for 4-leaf clovers.
Wonder if there's a more invasive type that taking over now?
Yes, I believe that I mentioned that fact.
I'm not upset; at my age I can't afford that-it's bad for the blood pressure.
