weeds and seeds

Did you know that the technical definition of a weed is any plant growing somewhere that you don't want it to be growing.

I love this. It makes me laugh. I mean this technically means that my grass that I so lovingly look after and 'weed' and water with grey water and mow is, when it is growing in my garden beds it is actually a weed. Wow.

Doesn't that just make you laugh? I find it really ironic.

I was thinking about that today while I was weeding my lawn see. And weeding my vege patch too. The clover in our lawn goes nuts in spring. And interestingly we have 3 different types of clover in our lawn. Some of it is very fine and I have to let it grow a little bit to remove it. Weird.

So, I was weeding and I transplanted some seedlings. They look good and healthy and have their second set of leaves so I've moved them into the 'grown up garden bed'. I have leeks to transplant too but I thought I'd let them get a little bit bigger first.

This is very exciting, except that about 14 other rows of seeds I planted didn't sprout. I might stop trying to grow from seeds and just buy seedlings from the nursery.

I must admit I do enjoy the gardening but sometimes it seems like a lot of work.