On 27 May 2004 09:10:42 -0700, (Mark) wrote:

(Liashi) wrote in message . com...
Hi again,

I have this thing popping up in my garden now, and I think it's Cotton
Morningglory (Ipomoea cordatotriloba for all you picky folks. -_-) At
least, based on this pictu
http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/ipott.htm
I'm not really in the area this thing is supposed to grow in tho . . .

The sprouts I'm seeing look like that however, but I have yet to see a
real leaf (like on the pic there.) What are the chances that this is
some kind of other plant? Is the first pair of leaves always enough to
tell a plant from others? (Within the same genus?) And I thought those
things were the seeds I planted. . . . Sigh.

Are the any resourses, paper or digital, that you would recommend for
identifying unwanted plants?


I've got those little buggers popping up all OVER my garden. I've
been wondering what they are, too, especially since they weren't there
last year.

Since I know they're morning glories, I'll transplant some of them to
the side of my garden shed and let them grow up the trellis there.
Oughtta be pretty.

Mark

Noooooooooo don't do it!! If you did not plant morning glories, and
let them go to seed, in a specific area, and you have these all over
the yard, they're probably not something you want growing in your
yard, like BINDWEED.. weed morning glories...cute little white
blossoms, spread like wildfire, seem to be perennial, have roots that
seem to grow to the core of the earth! They do not kill easily once
they're past the seedling stage as the roots store energy and you just
do NOT want them in your yard, don't take the chance that what you're
letting grow is a weed, if you want morning glories that are "tame"
spend a buck or two and buy some seeds, nick the coat a bit soak them
and plant them, then you'll KNOW it's not a weed before you've let it
take hold!

Strangling morning glories aka bindweed, is the one thing the chickens
couldn't effectively kill even after they'd killed blackberries, and
raspberries! It would grow up in the middle of the thorny gooseberry
bush canes to escape the chickens, so even after letting the chickens
completely have the yard for the year, while it killed many weeds and
fertilized the yard, and it's amazing how chicken feet can completely
compact the top of the soil, being that it has a fair clay percentage,
sealed the surface of the soil. I would go out and dig for the
chickens and to break up that seal on the surface. All I had to do
was show the chickens the shovel and they'd made the connection shovel
= worms! One in particular would RUN like mad when she saw it and
would follow that shovel wherever it went!

Anyway.. just one viewpoint on those "morning glories" .. Don't doooo
it! ;-)

Janice