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April 27, 2008
Benia and I went out and did some weeding yesterday. We spent about 3 hours crawling around the yard and pulling up things that weren't where they belonged. In some cases this included weeds, which in Native Suburbia is any plant that is non-native. Unfortunately we also found ourselves pulling up a fair amount of native plants. A lot of volunteers have sprouted up in the path that we maintain. It almost seems that seeds are more likely to germinate in the spaces between the stones than anywhere else. Maybe the stones capture the heat and warm up the soil around them faster in the Spring. In any case, we are not quite ready to turn our path over to 5 foot tall prairie plants. We need some nice short ground cover to go in between the stones but we are having a hard time finding anything native at our local nursery.
One thing we learned while doing all this weeding is that we are getting older and probably were a little too lazy over the winter. The sore muscles sang out today and reminded us that we may have jumped in a little too enthusiastically this year.
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