Yeah you can't kill it.. Cut it all the way down, put it through the Texas Ice Apocalypse, dig and pull it up --- it just laughs at us mere humans and comes back and flourishes
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That's why my yard is mostly weeds. The occasional drought and all the diseases and bugs that kill the sophisticated real grass has no effect on my yard. And it's all green and looks good when mowed.
With ya all the way larry. I'm afraid of using weed-n-feed as I might lose my green.
Like bamboo.
Great niece and nephew came out today to pick a few gourds and pumpkins and pose with "The Great Pumpkin"
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You are probably their favorite Uncle now! Chuck
Who can name this crop without cheating ?
Sorta looks like alfalfa, but Mississippi?
soy bean?
Peanuts?
Herbalist say that "weeds" are just the plants we haven't yet learned to appreciate.
Many years ago my yard went fallow because I became deathly ill and couldn't even start the weedwacker. Many "weeds" sprang up & flourished that I had never seen before because they always just got cut down. I developed an odd affinity for one plant that tugged on me repeatedly until I finally looked it up and found it was a powerful medicinal plant, nearly forgotten by even modern herbalists. That plant saved my life. I've since let large areas of my yard go wild and now harvest a pharmacy of medicine from it.
Yeh, did not think of peanuts. Great guess
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Ray is the winner ! Mississippi is the largest producer of peanuts in the US. Chances are you are eating Mississippi peanuts anytime you have peanut butter. Here at our research farm, the plots are starting to be harvested.
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Which plant was it?
Are there different varieties of peanuts? Used commercially?
Yes, there are about 4 "main" varieties. Each variety has many hybrids. Researchers are always trying to genetically improve productivity with disease, drought, and pest resistances.
I personally do a lot of my research in cover crops and soil conservation, and don't really have any hands on experience with our crop breeding folks. I'm an Ag Engineer and my job primarily is engineering related stuff. The group that I work with has developed over 300 commercially licensed cotton varieties and are now sold under various seed companies names & trademarks.
I recognized the plant shape. I’ve done a fair amount of dove hunting on peanut fields here in Florida.
It's commonly known as Horsebalm, also referred to as Stone Root. The latin is Collinsonia canadensis.
I gots lots of weeds - but that is a new one on me.
I personally liked "sampling" the fields of spanish reds!