The Most Horrible Weeds: Before and After Weeding Photos

Gargantuan Weeds Choke the Dead Peach Tree

“Why, oh why, are the weeds so incredibly much more horrible this year?” I wondered to myself. “Am I just getting older? Do they just SEEM worse?”

OH YEAH. THE DRIP SYSTEM.

These weeds have been thriving on drip system water, and have put down Hellish roots and have TAKEN OVER.

The WORST area is by my dead Peach Tree and “Rosebush”. Well, underneath all of the EVIL Morning Glory, there still IS a rosebush, but I haven’t seen it since March. I really should do a post on EVIL Morning glory, because it really is an incredible plant, flower and FOE.

P*L*U*S, there is this very Unfortunate House in my neighborhood that CLEARLY was landscaped by a Yankee Transplant (Not that I have anything against them), and they just didn’t know what they were getting into, with the year-round growing season here and the EVIL Morning GLory. Oh my Lord. Their backyard (which is visible from the street), well, it looks like they just had a nervous breakdown and gave up, the EVIL Moring GLory has completely taken over and is growing like Kudzu all up into the trees, having already overgrown all the shrubs and flowers and lawn furniture and the water feature and the gardening shed. I really should get you a picture!

There is ANOTHER house in my neighborhood too, that had this problem in years past, and although they have cleared most of it out, it is still a pitched battle.

Every winter I pull up every vestige of EVIL Morning Glory on my property, and every spring it comes back and grows its Transatlantic cables throughout the entire yard and up under the eaves and INTO the HOUSE and UNDER the HOUSE and UP the Night Blooming Jasmine (which is probably my favorite plant in my whole yard), trying to kill it.

Behold The EVILLL!!!!

Why do I let it grow at all? Well, it is PART hubris; I think I can mange it (and I always fail). Also, the flowers are really, really, REALLY pretty. Not as pretty as GOOD Morning Glory, but close. Good Morning Glory is the annual kind, you have to plant it from seed every spring, and it canNOT take the heat. I think it is called “Heavenly Blue” (the variety) and it IS Heavenly.

EVIL Morning GLory is Perreniel: Plant it once and suffer forever. It L*O*V*ES the heat. The flowers tend closer to purple than the annual Morning Glory. Like a Stephen King novel plant, it will envelope you and grow all over you and strangle you as you sit in your lawn furniture. It will tear your house down if you let it.

So, In these weeding photos, you will see the “rosebush” in the background, with it’s mantle of EVIL Morning Glory. Let the WEDDING BEGIN!

You can SEE the “Rosebush” in the far Left. See the leaves? Evil Morning Glory Leaves.

Long View of Weedy Area with the Beginnings of Weeding in the upper right

Half Weeded!

A Closer Look at the Fine Weeding Job that included digging up Sweet Potato sized Four O' Clock Tubers

All Planted Up with Cabbages, Kale, and Lettuce