Forget weedkiller and learn to love weeding
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Roundup Gel may have won awards, but Alys Fowler prefers wielding an old bread knife to rid her garden of weeds…
Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.” Today, I think we know differently. They have many uses, from soil fertility to wildlife refuge and food. To sully them as being something that we merely need to rid ourselves of does justice to neither their tenacity or our intelligence.
It doesn’t matter how much you spray, hoe or dig, they will always come back. They are by their nature determined plants with all sorts of resources, from complicated root networks that can thrust up through hard earth to staggered germination that allows them to keep a hold on their world
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