Pluggers by Rick McKee for September 05, 2021

I definitely have that problem. Grass grows where it’s not supposed to and it doesn’t grow where it is supposed to. I do not have a green thumb.

That’s not so bad—it’s all catnip!

weed whacker as well as a flame thrower

I wouldn’t be surprised if a mole burrowed through my concrete driveway. Our moles are that tough!

“God bless the grass growing in the crack”—Pete Seeger song

Don’t know how it gets there because I didn’t plant it there ;-)

Finally, the return of Catman!

Best solution for the grass and weeds growing in the drive….gasoline. Works better and longer than the weed poisons.

In my neighborhood we have weeds growing through the cracks in the sidewalk and a person in the neighborhood says we can’t spray weed killer on them because people might eat the weeds.

Those are the times that we let the sheep into the driveway….

Not mine. I can grow weeds there, though.

Not a problem here. Moss in the driveway is another story.

I have similar, but for me, the grass grows through the heavy-duty weed barrier under the landscaping rock.

Huh. Today I learned that there’s a Ontario, Ohio as well as the ones in Canada and California*

*and probably a few other places I’m not aware of.

Sooner or later we may realize that we really can’t fool or fool with Mother Nature without getting into trouble. We live in locations with specific climates and environments but we seem to want them to look (and behave) like different places. We plant grasses, trees, and flowers that really aren’t suited (even those genetically modified) and we spend much time, energy, and money trying to make them grow only where we want them to grow and to look like they look in other places, other soils, other climates. Why should lawns in Las Vegas look like lawns in Kentucky? Why should flower gardens in Texas look like those on the New England coast? It seems like we never really like the place we live — always wanting it to be like someplace else.

Works best with a brick driveway. You get enough to mow. :)

people in these parts like to eliminate the task of mowing by filling their postage stamp lots with gravel. which means, of course, that after a couple months they either have to start picking weeds or douse their entire property with roundup. most choose the latter…

We have little grass area in front of our house as we found it not safe to park in the street (too many car accidents on 4 lane main road) and made a circular driveway. It became hard to deal with backyard grass – took both of us mowing to deal with it. Then we got a bit of poison ivy – husband had to go out start of growing season and get rid of it before it grew and spread – but we kept up.

Then came 2020. We did not go out of the house other than to take in the mail from mid March until the late spring. The fact that backyard was growing did not enter our minds. We had to go to the garage for something and saw the mess. Since the poison ivy spread we could not even deal with mowing it. Tree weeds popped up. We waited it out and winter killed what was there. Did we learn our lesson – Nooooo! The grass is higher this summer, there are more and bigger weed trees and the poison ivy has found its way to the front of the house.

Even worse – our basement windows sit below ground level in window wells. Back in the normal times we had to replace the covers we put over the wells as they broken – we had done so with the back window – but there were plants in the side one and we never got to it. Never been a problem before – twice in the past 2 weeks we have water in the water (thank you Henri and Ida) which seems to be coming from the window well filling with water from the storms.

Hopefully it will die again this winter and in January I will call the neighbor and ask for the name and number of their gardener.