Nightshades in the garden today: black nightshade, wild tobacco, jasmine tobacco, peppers, and wild petunias

Datura outpacing black nightshade

After taking some time to think it over, I went out today and began uprooting black nightshade plants that had grown in places other than where I planted them. For one thing, I  don’t want it taking over my entire yard. I have a lot of other herbs out there, and [...]

Work Done This Weekend: chamomiles, angelica, solomon’s seal and more

It was forecast to be unseasonably hot Saturday, 85F/30C, and indeed, it got there. I had planned to do a bunch of garden work, like raking up the beds again after tilling, but the sun was too intense. Instead, I put stuff in the ground–three chamomiles, an angelica, a variegated Solomon’s seal (one day later [...]