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songbird[_2_] · 09-07-2010, 04:50 PM posted to rec.gardens

hr(bob) wrote:
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Thanx for the reply, I will make a low stool to sit on, with a hole
for a beverage container, and make sure not to paint it to avoid
attracting wildlife, both flying and on the groundG.

i sit as close to ground level as possible on
a chair bottom that has plenty of padding
and then i often find myself stretching out
and shifting positions as my back and butt
desire. it's amazing what you can observe
at a few inches elevation, but that does
put a damper on productivity.

yes, you can dig them up and track
down the stolons/runners/roots, but that
stirring of the soil also moves seeds around
and up from below. nature does enough
of that via worms, ants and other critters
so it doesn't need any help from me. the
less i disturb the soil in any planting the
fewer weeds come up there as they don't
get stirred up and it doesn't leave as many
places for the weed seeds blowing by to
get going too. the dead stuff standing
offers some protection to new seedlings
if you plant it again immediately, but
alas, there will probably be remaining
plants to deal with for a bit before you'll
have it completely under control.

yeah, it's a lot of work to paint, but for
the situation mentioned where he's talking
about taking out the middle with a full spray
then he's just having to deal with the stragglers
around the edges and isolated spots that are
too small to spray.

here, spray is always the last resort, i
weed as much by hand as possible and
plant cover crops to provide shade and
nursury plants for whatever else i want to
plant to follow on for the subsequent years.
many of these efforts are later sidetracked
and remodeled (because of wanting to
improve drainage or a new garden or a
new burying spot for deadheading or the
last raccoon found in the road upwind, etc.)

good luck,

songbird