Friend or Foe?
As the Philippine grass in the garden is growing, unwelcome elements have crept in as well. Weeds have grown amongst the grass. What are weeds anyway? What defines weeds are what we want to keep and what we want to throw out. My question is which are the weeds, and which are the grass I want to keep? There are weeds that are obviously weeds. There are abnormal looking grass that still look like grass gone funny, but still grass. (I need to keep these.) And then there are blades of grass that don’t look particularly alike the Philippine grass that I’ve planted but yet not completely different either.
100% weeds.
Not weeds, looks like the same grass growing under different conditions.
What about these? Are the taller blades weeds or the same grass growing differently?
Sometimes we assume something is a “weed” because it’s different. Sometimes it’s just the same “grass” growing in different circumstances. Ever been in this kind of situation?
Confusing la bernard! A weed is a weed until when it is removed it is a dead weed. hey you bluff! the 1st and the 3rd pic are the same and the one that look like a small plant is the weed or the grass beneath the plant is the weed or the whole thing is considered a weed because whether it is a weed a not it is all about ones perception. Phua!
Hrmmm … you think too much, my friend. Give the weeds.. grass? or whatever a chance will ya. Too early to ‘judge’ them la!
Oops George, thanks for pointing out the error in the 3rd photo, there… corrected it. Phua!! Dem profound.
You’re right, it’s confusing. That’s why i ask. The long blades of grass in the 3rd photo looks a lot like the blades in the 2nd photo. However, because it’s alone among the short blades, it looks very different. The long blades in the 2nd photo all look alike. So, they don’t look like weeds.
hoiling, think so? The “sure” weeds definitely have to go… else they’ll choke up my grass pulak. I guess the jury is still out on the other one.
eh there is a jagung tree growing right smack in the middle…nehh…the long long blade one ah….looks like it hor?..so..it’s not a weed…wait n see if it berbuah jagung anot?…*runs away….kekekkekekke
eve, wah… you want me to wait until it’s 5 feet tall ah?
Ha!Ha! I know. 2 things you can do:(Let “Sifu” teach you)
1. for mutant growth like picture 3 — just remove the mutant - pull only it out
2. for long variety like picture 2 - then you take those garden shears or scissors and trim it all to equal length - the no choking yet becoz choking not on top but in the root, so… water and wait, if it grows faster than the rest then consider it a mutant refer rule no 1.
How? Convinced? Let garden sifu be up to date, okay!
Now I know why I let someone else handle the garden. @_@
Ehh… talk about garden, anyone had experience putting those … what you call it … the small “reflexology” stones … in your garden? Maybe lay a path? Would it come out nice?
George, wah.. sounds like good advice, sifu. I’ll go with that. I’ll report back in a month. *takes a bow.
yenjai, those stones would be decorations to me ‘cos I wouldn’t know how to use them. I think they might look quite nice. Perhaps I might wait until the grass grows and lay the pebbles out where the grass doesn’t grow. Sounds good?
Bernard, my wife is thinking of doing that, though I have no idea how to ’scatter’ the stone for it to look nice
yenjai, I think it’s just laying them down on the ground and adding on until you like it . Alternatively, i’ve seen these stones fixed on a cement/tile base which you can arrange on a path.
Hmm… very phylosophy… chim.. chim..
Hi LT, haha… very perceptive. You’re the only one who looked beyond the “grass”.