Hello,
I am new to gardening and trying to learn as I go. I planted some seeds in the front of my house and now they have grown but I cant remember what they are now, can anyone identify what these flowers might be, they havent bloomed yet.
Thank you
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Yep. Rather than digging it out, cut it just below soil level and then really mess up the cut stump. If it tries to grow back even then, just keep cutting any shoots off and that should starve it. It's an annual so it shouldn't come back next year. Just keep an eye out for seedling weeds with red stem.
I once let ONE pigweed grow to maturity because I wanted to see if it was possible to harvest the seeds like grain amaranth -- hey you never know for sure until you try, right? It turned out that it was a nightmare to thresh and de-hull, so I cut it down after first harvest of matured seeds. By then it was 2 inches in diameter at the base and 5 feet tall. I needed to use my GOOD pruning loppers -- my junky loppers I normally use for weeds and clearing wild brush growth couldn't cut through the tough trunk.
@plantdoctor, does amaranthus self/re-seed as enthusiastically as the wild form?
I once let ONE pigweed grow to maturity because I wanted to see if it was possible to harvest the seeds like grain amaranth -- hey you never know for sure until you try, right? It turned out that it was a nightmare to thresh and de-hull, so I cut it down after first harvest of matured seeds. By then it was 2 inches in diameter at the base and 5 feet tall. I needed to use my GOOD pruning loppers -- my junky loppers I normally use for weeds and clearing wild brush growth couldn't cut through the tough trunk.
@plantdoctor, does amaranthus self/re-seed as enthusiastically as the wild form?
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