In defense of these plants they are not weeds…I dabble in kitchen witchery and I can do some great things with these plants…I make salves, tinctures and lotions…and teas too
Clover. It is nitrogen fixing, which means where clover grows the ground becomes more fertile.
Clover in your lawn is actually a good thing, makes the grass healthier without needing as much fertilizer. In the old days people used to deliberately introduce clover into their lawns until weed killers became popular and corporate America marketed clover as a weed because they couldn’t prevent their stuff from killing it too.
@OnionSoup I bought clover seeds last year. Still haven’t spread them though. Some of it is just for some dirt areas that grass doesn’t want to grow. The clover will look better than dirt. It also doesn’t grow very tall so you don’t have to mow nearly as often.
My guinea pigs love to eat clover. They would be thrilled if I filled the entire yard with clover and let them graze daily. Of course it needs to stop raining to let them out, so I just grab a few handfuls and deliver it to them.
Every child knows 4 leaf clovers are lucky. Hope, faith, love, luck. A fifth leaf means money, a sixth means a lifetime of IRKs. You can’t argue with facts.
In high school it was some ridiculously named thing like a Northern lights/Alaskan Thunderf**k hydro kush hybrid native to the sandwich bag region of some guy with a moniker like (‘diesel’’ or ‘Hollywood’ or ‘Big Johnny’)'s apartment in the sketchy part of the bad part of town.
Tumble weed made me so happy the first time I saw it. Likely similar to Arizona kids seeing snow for the first time. We put it in the car and hung it as a decoration in our apartment.
@sillyheathen Right. This pink vetch stuff was actually planted by some long-gone neighbor, I’ve been told, and since I’m not a diligent gardener, it’s really gone crazy in my yard. The bees like it, at least!
@Kyeh I have the same problem with lemon balm and salad burnet. Granted the SB is my fault because I plant all the culinary herbs but it spreads like crazy. Also oregano and euphorbia. There are worse volunteers though so I can’t complain too terribly.
@Kyeh@sillyheathen In this area (I’m downriver from Portland), the trick to gardening is not getting what you want to grow, it’s getting all the things you don’t want to not grow so the things you want have a chance. I call it “morbidly fecund”.
In defense of these plants they are not weeds…I dabble in kitchen witchery and I can do some great things with these plants…I make salves, tinctures and lotions…and teas too
Oh, come on…
Everyone knows there is only one answer.
@2many2no Some of us still live in states that make it illegal AF.
@remo28 But it can still be the favorite.
/giphy 420
@2many2no @remo28 Dandelions are illegal?? In what state??
@2many2no I came here to reply “Chem91” but this is close enough lol
@2many2no
Mint
I’ll say Milkweed because of the Monarch butterflies they attract.
My favorite is a thistle officially known as Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.
Clover because clover honey is abundant and affordable and homebrew beer and mead is wonderful
Ajuga aka bugleweed. It’s a ground cover that blooms with spiky blue-purple flowers.
Define “weed”.
@PocketBrain
noun
a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.
@deanerino So basically any plant growing where you do not want it. But being a “favorite” means you want it, therefore the question is invalid.
Is this a trick question? Cause obviously it would be sativa . . .
Edibles anyone?
@too33deep Yes, weed should be everyone’s favorite weed.
Baby Groot
Clover. It is nitrogen fixing, which means where clover grows the ground becomes more fertile.
Clover in your lawn is actually a good thing, makes the grass healthier without needing as much fertilizer. In the old days people used to deliberately introduce clover into their lawns until weed killers became popular and corporate America marketed clover as a weed because they couldn’t prevent their stuff from killing it too.
@OnionSoup I bought clover seeds last year. Still haven’t spread them though. Some of it is just for some dirt areas that grass doesn’t want to grow. The clover will look better than dirt. It also doesn’t grow very tall so you don’t have to mow nearly as often.
My guinea pigs love to eat clover. They would be thrilled if I filled the entire yard with clover and let them graze daily. Of course it needs to stop raining to let them out, so I just grab a few handfuls and deliver it to them.
Every child knows 4 leaf clovers are lucky. Hope, faith, love, luck. A fifth leaf means money, a sixth means a lifetime of IRKs. You can’t argue with facts.
@wxschool I have a 5 leaf clover at work! Nice!
@wxschool
/image 7 leaf clover
A pulled weed. What comes to your mind when you picture a pulled weed?
Wedding Cake is dank af
In high school it was some ridiculously named thing like a Northern lights/Alaskan Thunderf**k hydro kush hybrid native to the sandwich bag region of some guy with a moniker like (‘diesel’’ or ‘Hollywood’ or ‘Big Johnny’)'s apartment in the sketchy part of the bad part of town.
Tumble weed made me so happy the first time I saw it. Likely similar to Arizona kids seeing snow for the first time. We put it in the car and hung it as a decoration in our apartment.
I like to bring our pet guinea pig outside to graze on clover under an upturned laundry basket. It is definitely her favorite weed.
Are wildflowers weeds? There are wonderful wild iris, lupine, fireweed and foxglove that grow in the woods around my house.
Stinging Nettle because goddamn.
We planted clover in our yard for the bees. There are patches throughout.
Barefoot is not the best idea.
Puncture vine. A.K.A. “goat heads” This crap.
My favorite weed to nuke from orbit is puncture vine. A.K.A. “goat heads” This crap.
My favorite “weed” is wild onions, because they smell delicious when mowed, and make a good soup.
Ditch weed or sunflowers.
Buttercups.
milkweed
This stuff - it’s a kind of vetch. Beautiful when it’s in bloom, but SUPER invasive!
All plants are weeds at some point. Just plants in the wrong place.
@sillyheathen Right. This pink vetch stuff was actually planted by some long-gone neighbor, I’ve been told, and since I’m not a diligent gardener, it’s really gone crazy in my yard. The bees like it, at least!
@Kyeh I have the same problem with lemon balm and salad burnet. Granted the SB is my fault because I plant all the culinary herbs but it spreads like crazy. Also oregano and euphorbia. There are worse volunteers though so I can’t complain too terribly.
@sillyheathen It must smell nice!
@Kyeh it’s pretty funny when we cut the grass in some spots because mint, Oregon and lemon balm are rather fragrant when they get mowed down.
@Kyeh @sillyheathen In this area (I’m downriver from Portland), the trick to gardening is not getting what you want to grow, it’s getting all the things you don’t want to not grow so the things you want have a chance. I call it “morbidly fecund”.
@Kyeh @macromeh then we’re probably neighbors! And yes. My yard can be a jungle if I don’t get on it! She’s a wily one!