A post about garden weeds was originally written for the October issue of the Hawkesbury Parish News – plus recommended autumn reads.
“One year’s weeds is seven years’ seeds.”
So a neighbour warned me, casting anguished looks at my disorderly flower beds not long after I’d moved into the village.
Much as I tried, the weeds always seemed to appear faster than I could pull them up. I tried not to let them get me down, telling myself that by the end of August they’d all stop growing anyway.
Not so now. As I write, two-thirds of the way through September, one kind of weed is still going strong. I shall forever remember 2023 for the Summer of the Bindweed.