Comments on: Bishop’s Weed http://garden-notes.lot42.com/2006/05/bishops-weed/ From a Casual Gardener Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:28:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Joe - Toledo, OH http://garden-notes.lot42.com/2006/05/bishops-weed/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Joe - Toledo, OH Sat, 28 May 2011 01:04:00 +0000 http://garden-notes.lot42.com/blog/?p=14#comment-97 Great use for this aggressive, yet useful plant, Mike! We did similar as you described above. Unfortunately, our plants did not have permanent containment all the way around. We originally planted the Bishop’s Weed in the far back corners of two symmetrical/matching beds located right up against an extraordinarily dry/super-hot-in-Summer/deep-freeze-and-thaw cycles in Winter/once desolate/arid North-facing sides of our home entry stoop/porch. (one side NE & the other more NW, to be exact) Then, for the first few years, both areas of Bishop’s Weed stayed pretty well contained to where we had planted them and filled in their respective spots nicely. Then our NW Ohio region's long forgotten wet weather period struck and made those suckers live up to their weedy name! I knew I was taking a chance putting them there at first, so it was totally my fault of course -but damn- I’d never met a more pushy herb ‘till I met these! (personally, I'd much rather have to pull/dig-up the Bishop's Weed from whichever garden over all the freaking’ pricker-thistles -and other such noxious pests- that have invaded parts of lawn & garden in the last wetter years, as described earlier… but then again, that’s just me=-) To SUM IT UP: this über-low maintenance plant is great in contained, hostile & hard-to-make-anything live/grow areas...but, HEED NOTICE: if you do not contain these plants properly, by impenetrable and permanent measures, they will spread & spread & spread! & THAT’S 4 SURE! Peace, Happiness & Fruitful Gardening to All! -jgs Great use for this aggressive, yet useful plant, Mike!
We did similar as you described above. Unfortunately, our plants did not have permanent containment all the way around. We originally planted the Bishop’s Weed in the far back corners of two symmetrical/matching beds located right up against an extraordinarily dry/super-hot-in-Summer/deep-freeze-and-thaw cycles in Winter/once desolate/arid North-facing sides of our home entry stoop/porch. (one side NE & the other more NW, to be exact) Then, for the first few years, both areas of Bishop’s Weed stayed pretty well contained to where we had planted them and filled in their respective spots nicely. Then our NW Ohio region’s long forgotten wet weather period struck and made those suckers live up to their weedy name! I knew I was taking a chance putting them there at first, so it was totally my fault of course -but damn- I’d never met a more pushy herb ‘till I met these!
(personally, I’d much rather have to pull/dig-up the Bishop’s Weed from whichever garden over all the freaking’ pricker-thistles -and other such noxious pests- that have invaded parts of lawn & garden in the last wetter years, as described earlier… but then again, that’s just me=-)
To SUM IT UP: this über-low maintenance plant is great in contained, hostile & hard-to-make-anything live/grow areas…but, HEED NOTICE: if you do not contain these plants properly, by impenetrable and permanent measures, they will spread & spread & spread! & THAT’S 4 SURE!

Peace, Happiness & Fruitful Gardening to All!
-jgs

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