{"id":16981,"date":"2019-05-11T11:19:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16981"},"modified":"2019-05-16T20:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T00:25:06","slug":"weeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16981","title":{"rendered":"Weeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16983\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190511_164970.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16983\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190511_164970-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Pokeweed\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16983\" data-wp-pid=\"16983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190511_164970-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190511_164970-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190511_164970-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190511_164970-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190511_164970-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190511_164970.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pokeweed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Weeds are incredible. They grow so fast, are hard to get rid of, and can easily take over your yard. I&#8217;ve mentioned that last year we didn&#8217;t do a lot of gardening and the weeds got the upper hand. This spring they are coming up in force. In the big patch of lily of the valley (<em>Convallaria majalis<\/em>) the Canada thistle <em>Cirsium arvense<\/em> was so thick you could barely see the lily of the valley. I spent the morning pulling it up and it looks so much better. I also dug up some pokeweed (<em>Phytolacca americana<\/em>). That&#8217;s what is photographed here, leaves and root of pokeweed (and you can see a little Canada thistle at the top). This huge root was a bit of work to get out. I&#8217;m not naive enough to believe it won&#8217;t come back from the small amount of root left in the ground, but getting this huge root out is a necessary first step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeds are incredible. They grow so fast, are hard to get rid of, and can easily take over your yard. I&#8217;ve mentioned that last year we didn&#8217;t do a lot of gardening and the weeds got the upper hand. This spring they are coming up in force. In the big patch of lily of the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16981\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1654,1703,1702,1700,1701,1269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16987,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions\/16987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}