{"id":182046,"date":"2024-09-28T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T14:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=182046"},"modified":"2024-10-13T13:39:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T18:39:26","slug":"additional-garden-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/additional-garden-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional garden notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Grasshoppers have been a plague, as usual. The only control I have found that works at all is the orb weaver spider. I observed one in my garden wrap up two grasshoppers almost as large as itself in five minutes.<\/p>\n

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Roundup is no longer Roundup. It used to contain glyphosate, and it was the best chemical solution for most weeds, particularly invasive, difficult-to-dig-out grasses like bermuda.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> However, it\u2019s been reformulated without glyphosate, and it no longer reliably kills weeds. I sprayed the above plant above three weeks before I took the picture. With the old Roundup it would have been completely dead and ready to scrape off the pavement. With the new, disimproved formula, it looks uglier than it did before but is still vigorously growing. I checked every herbicide at Home Despot; not one of them contains glyphosate any more.<\/p>\n

Sleep, creep, leap: the conventional wisdom is that growing perennials from seed to bloom takes three years. The first year they produce just a few leaves and concentrate on developing their roots; the second year there is more top growth but most of the action still takes place underground; the third year they’re ready to put on a show. I find that this may be true of some, but most are quicker. I’m still waiting for the Baptisias<\/em>, Asclepias <\/em>and the rest of the Silphiums<\/em> that I started last year, but all the Penstemons<\/em> bloomed this year. Quite a few bloomed well their first year, e.g. Helianthus<\/em>, Aster<\/em><\/strike> Symphyotrichum<\/em>, Dianthus<\/em>, Rudbeckia<\/em>, Echinacea<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I spotted the above while reviewing Monty Python<\/i> recently. The yellow flowers look like Mentzelia<\/i>, possibly M. lindleyi<\/a><\/i> — a plant of the American west, and not something I would have expected from a bunch of silly Brits (and an expatriate American).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grasshoppers have been a plague, as usual. The only control I have found that works at all is the orb weaver spider. I observed one in my garden wrap up two grasshoppers almost as large as itself in five minutes. Roundup is no longer Roundup. It used to contain glyphosate, and it was the best … Continue reading “Additional garden notes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-real-life-adventures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Lme","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182046"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182427,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182046\/revisions\/182427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}