California Gardening: Happy Fall y'all, 1 by suewylan

suewylan wrote:
After the rains of two weeks ago, the weeds are popping up in my new planting beds. I need to zap them one more time with Roundup before planting the wildflower seeds.

One bit of good luck was that the True Value near us is remodeling the Garden Shop and was selling all their gallon plants for $1! These plants were normally $4.95 to $6.95! Nice! This will help fill out around the edges of this big space. The more planted area, the less weeds.

All the weeds sprouts are from the filagree, my personal nemesis, now. They have a seed pod that looks like a screw with a fishhook on one end. Our dog, Maggie gets tons in her fur and since filagree is non native, I have no qualms abut killing it!

The sprouts are popping up around the new plants put in in the last few weeks, so I took the hoe or my trowel and scraped them off in the watering basins around the plants.