The Gardener's Weed Book [antikvár]

The Wide World of WeedsThis book is about the plants gardeners love to hate, which we call weeds. Through the ages, people have attempted to define weeds, always with inadequate results. Are they "plants whose virtues have yet to be discovered" (Walt Whitman), "guardians of the soil" (Joseph Cocannouer), or something equally nice, or are they sly thieves who steal the soil's resources and gardeners' precious time?All of the above! During the months that I have been writing this book, summer has arrived, and with it have come bounteous crops of weeds. Although my yard is only average in size, I have accumulated a small mountain of weeds that are now piled high in the deep shade beyond my compost heap. Many of them were attempting to fulfill the honorable mission of healing over soil that I had left open and scarred, but others had no rightful claim to be where I found them. In the sweaty company of these rowdy wild plants, I decided that weeds can only be defined from a practical point of view: weeds are any plants that insist on growing where you don't want them to grow.It so happens that the same plants trespass into gardens time after time. This book encompasses 80 weeds that are commonly found in North