Hi Bill yes in my new small garden meadow creeping buttercup is the
challenge
I have not come across folding the weeds they get a yank (not US!) from me
it reads a bit like an aphorism -old masters wise words cheers P
my Partner Janet is in Melbourne at the moment so watch out Australians!!!
On 18/10/2017 03:13, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Yes, you're right! Andrew, Jill. When I get time off weeding.
>
> Soursob or yellow oxalis we don't have here fortunately, Jill, just a few
> patches of the violet flowered one, less intrusive it seems.
>
> I used to mow it in our previous place or use glysophyn, carefully in the
> garden.
>
> Sticky weed is a major problem here, wrapping around plants, as well as
> big, strappy weeds and spiky jobs.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 1:00 PM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> I'm with Andrew here. I think it's worth a shot - a garden poem, or
>> series.
>>
>> Here we have a never-ending battle with soursob - we've won a few
>> engagements but the war continues.
>>
>> best,
>> Jill
>>
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>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
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>> Sent:Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:46:15 +0800
>> Subject:Re: Late weeding
>>
>> Too right, Bill! We have the same thing with ivy growing wild!
>>
>> Maybe you could evolve the garden poem further? It seems like a very
>> good
>> beginning to a poem ..
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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>> On 18 October 2017 at 04:47, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>
>> > You know you've let things get away
>> > when to fit them in your tub
>> > you have to fold weeds in three
>> >
>> > bw
>> >
>>
>> --
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