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When Your Resolve To Rewild The Garden Is Tested To The Nth Degree Before You Have Even Begun
This monster was determined to be Boss Cocky.
I’d noticed these shallow-rooted plants in the garden, but hadn’t paid a huge amount of attention to them. With the weather being so wet and wild, I hadn’t spent so much of my planned time there.
Yesterday, though, with great determination, and my electric lawnmower, I ventured out. Our back lawn had already been mowed twice, (it’s winter!) and still it defiantly grew like some awkward teenager.
I soon returned the mower, because I was faced with what looked like dandelion plants, but which were absolutely huge.
They were doing a great job of taking over a back corner of my garden, each plant at least 40 cm in diameter, perhaps more.
That they had multiplied so easily was a bit worrying. They had to go., because I could see they would stifle other plants. Fortunately they had not started to flower.
The thing about dandelions is that if you don’t get them out before flowering, after which they set seeds, you have a huge job on your hands.
Remember the games we used to play with the dandelion clock…one o’clock, two o’clock?
