Ray's Thought for the Day - Winter Weed Festival Eve

Yepper. Winter Weed Festival Day is tomorrow, Day 43 of DY 1, Season of the Polar Bear. All the Druids at the CB are hard at work monitoring the winter weeds. But the casual trespasser to the CB might presume that we do not have many winter weeds. We do have a good many though, just not many relatively speaking. So monitoring the winter weeds these days at the CB is desultory rather than intensive.

Remember that Druids like to have plants around that are generally native to these parts. That means we select for those type plants and de-select the non-natives. Years of de-selecting the non-native has made winter weed monitoring desultory at the CB because there are not many of them here, due to de-selection.

However, we do have a good many native winter weeds, plus some delicious dandelions (Taraxacum officinale)and a very troublesome non-native vetch. The very troublesome non-native vetch (Vicia sativa) has mastered the Druids. It is mainly concentrated in and around the bar ditch out front and we can not suppress or de-select it. It is impossible to get shut of employing our labor intensive methods. We might get shut of it if we called in Tom Delay, but that would be unethical. Besides, might, is the operational term when you deal with Tom. Noper, herbiciding the bar ditch is not an option.

All righty then. For the next few days, as our little planet wobbles perilously onward through time and space, adjusting to fatter babies, a rising thermometer, and no telling what else, the Druids shall focus on winter weeds. Happy Imbolc, everyone we both know and like. Happy Winter Weed Festival!!!!