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[tnh]

1. Keep track.

You know how sometimes you'll get a reminder about Thing Wanted stuck in your mental queue, and a few shopping trips later you'll be wildly oversupplied with worcestershire sauce, or paper towels, or Campbell's chicken broth? If I had to do that with something for my garden, why did it have to be Colocasia esculenta, a.k.a.

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[jenwrites]

The purple loostrife seems to be doing fairly well along the Charles River near where I live. I've been walking along the Charles for about 10 years now, and it doesn't seem to be increasing its acerage there, so balance has been found.

However, if someone would like to take the black swallowwort out of my back garden for whatever nefarious purposes they have in mind, I'd be happy to let it go. It's not only ugly and aggressive, it's stinky too :P

[mswagner]

You know how sometimes you'll get a reminder about Thing Wanted stuck in your mental queue, and a few shopping trips later you'll be wildly oversupplied with worcestershire sauce, or paper towels, or Campbell's chicken broth?

I did that with dried fruit a few years back. Apricots, bananas, cherries, apples. Every couple of months I'd be at the store and think, "I should get some dried fruit." Then I'd bring it home and not eat it. Then I'd forget I had it. Repeat a couple of months later, several times over, until we had quite a stockpile of dried fruit. Which we eventually threw out.

To this day, it's a running joke in our house. "I'm going to the store now." "Don't forget to bring home some dried fruit." Oh, the laughter which ensues!

[elisem]

Yay, pernil! The pockets of Cerridwen, eh?

[coalboy]

"do the same for purple loosestrife, a gorgeous but invasive perennial that's the bane of northeastern wetlands. "

The damned stuff has reached Wisconsin already! Maybe farther west, but I haven't been there in blooming season.

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[anonymous]

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