Let's
talk about weeds. No, not the Mary Louise Parker vehicle, and not the
smoky-smoke kind. The ugly, prickly, insidious kind that crowds out
friendlier plants.
With two little kids, about 17 jobs, and a
house to take care of, I've given up my customary gardening this year
save for a few tomato and basil plants. But that leaves fertile ground,
literally, for weeds to come in and take over. Even if I were not
attempting a more green lifestyle, I have plants in there I want to
encourage, so soaking the beds with Roundup and being done with it is
out — not to mention I’d rather my kids not eat tomatoes that had been
so recently exposed to God-knows-what chemical herbicides.
And then there's our lawn. Suffice it to say
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