Pulsegleaner
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Problem is you never really know what is going to become a weed when you sow it. It took us years to get rid of the Japanese Lanterns, and the Peruvian Four O' Clocks.IF you read the literature that comes with these packages, they tell you to weed the beds. I have 3 kinds of weeds in my wildflower bed, fortunately ALL has shallow roots. One of the extra "weeds" is turnip greens, that have taken over many of my beds. THEY.ARE.WELCOME!!
And I certainly didn't EXPECT that the senna seeds and rice beans I tossed our for the critters to eat would wind up hiding in the soil and coming up year after year for the rest of my life (the rice beans are almost gone now, but I'm STILL yanking senna plants out of both the cucumber garden and the patio pots.
I suppose I should just count myself lucky I managed to catch the wild soybeans before the spread (given how many seeds those ten plants made, had I let them spread, I'd be up to my ears in vines now) and the Devil's Horsewhip didn't become established.
Theoretically, I also still get a few sprouts from my bindweed relative growing test of three or four years ago in the right hand Side Patio pot, but since none of them seem to be able to compete enough with the lablab beans to not get completely smothered and never make any flowers, that's not exactly a big problem. Ditto whatever comes up in the white pot in the middle (I'd actually be curious to see what some of those legume sprouts turned into, but none seem to reach a flowering size, and the senna THERE tends to shade everything out.)