Evil lurks in Spring....

Tomorrow is the first day of spring, and when you go outside you are convinced of just that.....Spring is bustin' out all over! just like the song...take a look...

the daffodils are up, and have smiling faces....

I never thought I would get excited about compost...but I sure am proud of it....I am so proud of it I don't want to use it....I just want to look at it and all the worms inside....

the raspberries are getting new leaves on them....

the cherry trees have buds all over.....

the roses are all leafed out!

Azaleas are just coming on....

and here is where the evil lurks...this innocent looking weed....it has a happy little white flower....all you have to do it touch it and it SPRAYS seeds all over, just broadcasts them....it is horrid, then a million more weeds grow around it....

and then they look like this when the flowers are gone...and there really are a million of these nasty things....I noted the evil little weeds on my facebook and a friend I went to school with is a Nursery man and this is what he wrote back and said.....

'Those weeds were the bane in the greenhouses - common name is popweed or Western Bittercress, Cardamine oligosperma, if you want the specific. They are hated by all.'

(he added this little bit of help, just in case anyone wants to stop the little devils....)

To control weeds w/o chemicals: Apply a layer of mulch, as little as an inch will do; cultivate area they are in; and also remove any that sprout, right away. Chemical: Chemical with 2,4-D in it like weed-b-gone from Ortho and spot spray. 
So there you have it, now you know all about the little white seed spraying flowers.....

Cheers to Happy  !!