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Dave,
If you look closely, all the weeds are wearing tiny green overcoats.

Greynomad wrote: ↑Tue Jul 01, 2025 11:48 pm Dave,
If you look closely, all the weeds are wearing tiny green overcoats.

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.

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...
Bernie.

supersparky 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?

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 goat

T1 Terry

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

Greynomad wrote: ↑Wed Jul 02, 2025 5:47 pm T1,
My favourite definition of a WEED is,
“Any plant growing where you don’t want it is a weed.”

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 yet everything around them requires tireless effort to keep alive ..... We have those broad leaf cactus sort of plants that put up the big flowering branch as their dying effort, they grow with or without assistance as well. We saw one that had been dug up on the side of the road and we thought it was there for someone to pick up ..... 3 weeks later, it was still there, so I picked it up and dug a hole for it in the garden .... it now has around 5 heads that have appeared around the original ..... it doesn't seem to worried about the climate or house fires or even getting watered .......
I guess some would call them weeds, we call them members of a Covill garden, even we can't kill them with neglect

T1 Terry

How did "weed" the naughty one get that name?

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.

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.

T! will know he's really old now.

He's not that old..... remember he was going to drill a hole and let the rain in.