Weeding

Curled Dock

The Parking Lot Garden is just getting established after being planted last year with native plants. It has taken us a while to distinguish between a native plant and what we classify as a weed. 
When weeds are removed from the garden, we want to ensure that the soil in which the weed was growing remains as undisturbed as possible when the intruder is removed. Some weeds such as Prickly Lettuce, which has a taproot, take little effort to pull; Curled dock, on the other hand, has rigorous spreading taproots and requires some amount of strength and finesse to get it out of the ground without having a softball-sized clump of soil come with it. Plantain has fibrous roots and is also takes strength and finesse to remove.

It would be good if each of our volunteers became an expert in a single weed and how to remove it effectively. 

See our Rogues Gallery of Weeds.