Weeds
Yesterday and today, T-Dizzle's girlfriend and I spent a good deal of time pulling weeds in the backyard. Common mallow, to be specific:
So, these are pernicious weeds. I know that some people grow them on purpose, just like some people grow dandelions or bamboo on purpose. I do not. They share a characteristic with dandelions: you can't just cut 'em down. You gotta dig 'em out. I did not know this, so when I spent hella time last fall cutting them back, all I was doing was creating more work for myself this weekend. Also, like dandelions, they can have very long (2' or more) roots. Unlike dandelions, they are very woody, so you can't just chop 'em down with a lawnmower (if you are feeling lazy and you want to make more work for yourself in a few months). You HAVE to use trimmers--or like we did today, a pick-axe and brute strength. The good news is that if you catch 'em early, they come pretty easily right out of the ground. And we had the advantage of very wet soil.
So, yay to the GF and me. T-Dizzle said, "You need a lesbian around for these kinds of chores." And you know, she's right. I've tried to get men and teen boys to help with the yardwork in the past, and it's been like herding cats. They do all the shit I DON'T need done, and I end up doing stuff like this by myself. They can't focus, or they can't plan ahead; or they can't accept that I can focus and I do plan ahead, I suppose.
Gosh, maybe I should find a lesbian regular gardener type, too....
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Aww I wish I lived closer. I am the lesbian comfrey- slayer in my garden. Comfrey sounds a lot like mallow. You have to dig it up or it just spreads and spreads. I love weeding, love it. There is something so calming and satisfying about it.
last spring my neighbor and i attacked the whole front yard of our apartment building. there were bushes of weeds growing like four feet high all along the entire front wall of the building and starting to come up onto the porch and the bottoms of our windows, and we spent an entire day out in the sunshine digging and weeding and hacking and chopping side by side in silence... it was so utterly soothing. then we turned over the soil outside my kitchen windows and mulched and planted a small garden there, it was so lovely. i wish i could find the before and after pics i took, because i'm still proud of it.
even though i'm just slightly queer and not a full fledged lesbian. But i hear you about the man thing- motorman even worked as a gardener for a long time, but he consistently disappoints me in gardening. He calls it good enough long before i ever would.
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