If you look closely, all the weeds are wearing tiny green overcoats.
Why is it so?
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Re: Why is it so?
Dave,
If you look closely, all the weeds are wearing tiny green overcoats.

If you look closely, all the weeds are wearing tiny green overcoats.
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Re: Why is it so?
Ray, are you sure those mushie's you had for brekky weren't gold tops?


But when the sun comes up I'm going to check.

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Re: Why is it so?
Kikuyu grass doesn't fair well up here...to hot and takes a lot of water...up here if it's green in the winter it's a weed making it easier to eradicate...I use Kamba M doesn't kill the grass only the weeds...
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Re: Why is it so?
It's only classed as a weed because it is the strongest plant and grows rapidly ..... goats don't consider any of them as weeds, they all taste the same to a goatsupersparky wrote: ↑Tue Jul 01, 2025 10:44 pm So, why do the weeds still grow when it's too cold for the grass to grow?

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Re: Why is it so?
T1,
My favourite definition of a WEED is,
“Any plant growing where you don’t want it is a weed.”

My favourite definition of a WEED is,
“Any plant growing where you don’t want it is a weed.”
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Re: Why is it so?
We have these plants that seem to spring up on their own, many different colour flowers from yellow to orange, purple, a blueish one, white .... they are all self-sown along the sides of the road around Mannum and in the house front yard. Hit them with the mower and within a few days, new leaves and a new spray of flowers, a bit of water, new flowers .... yet the locals try to poison them or dig them out of their gardens

I guess some would call them weeds, we call them members of a Covill garden, even we can't kill them with neglect

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Re: Why is it so?
How did "weed" the naughty one get that name? 

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Re: Why is it so?
Dunno the answer to that one, young Dorothy. It's been called weed ever since I can remember. First heard it called that in the mid 60's. Maybe some really old person knows. 

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Re: Why is it so?
T! will know he's really old now.supersparky wrote: ↑Wed Jul 02, 2025 9:44 pm Dunno the answer to that one, young Dorothy. It's been called weed ever since I can remember. First heard it called that in the mid 60's. Maybe some really old person knows.![]()

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