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Tilling will renew any rhizomatous weeds such as mint or bermuda grass.
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Maybe that's why there's so much mint. The adminstrator told me the previous tenant had already tilled this spring.
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By the way, burdock root is sold at my local farmers' market. It's an acquired taste, but a really good medicinal/nutritious plant for soups. Also used in Chinese medicine.
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I thought about keeping the burdock & harvesting the root. But it would get into everyone else's plots, I suppose.
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Given the choice between a standard lawn/hedge landscape and a weedy plot, I'd take the weedy plot every time. I love wild herbs, and I love exploring what looks like a weedy mess and finding a wealth of useful plants.
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It does sound like fun. My brother, the biologist/librarian, identifies all kinds of cool plants when we're out in a park. Makes all that previously anonymous green stuff so interesting! Of course, it's been like that ever since I was 3 years old and he told me about dinosaurs.
Angel, no way I'm leaving those velvet leaf seed pods in the garden! They're fascinating and lovely, but -- very naughty.
Out they come.
Christine