OK, so like I said, I'm a newbie. I live in NE Kansas. The soil is
nice enough, dark, few rocks but kinda of clay-ey. The soil seems better
now that I worked some bagged soil in with it. I recently dug up two sunny
areas in the yard to plant flowers - one has gladiola bulbs, the other was
various seeds (prairie grasses, sunflower, blue fescue grass, mixed
blooming flowers and some butterfly weed which isn't weed .
I pull weeds when I see them but, for instance, the last few days have
been solid rain. Now that it's stopped raining I find some spots are
positively overrun with weeds. Is the only solution pulling them? Are
there weed killers which won't kill my flowers? (Yeah, I'm a little
lazy...)
Anyhow, my sunflowers (tithonia) just sprouted today and I'm excited!
Little teeny sunflower plants.

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