“Evil weeds cono creces ...!!!”
*This is one of my recurring comments in the edible garden...?
But are they really that bad weeds...?🤭
Hey Hive Lovers I hope you are doing great and that your orchards and gardens are full of fruits and flowers.
Life is full of weeds and good weeds !!!
No doubt this is a great topic,we will say that this is for me a controversial part of the edible garden.These bad or evil weeds as I call them can amaze us more than we think ....
Here my participation this week in Theme of the week Weeds.
I know that each plant they fulfill their function in the personal thing I bet faithfully to the syntropic gardens, here there are many really beautiful native plants, but there are several of them that have demonstrated to me not to be so friendly.
So it's time to constantly clean up the evil weeds, which can cross between the productive fruit-bearing plants.
In our case we have an area in the garden with raised beds which helps us to control the weeds a little more for these crops but we also have an edible garden area where we plant squash, pumpkin, corn, corn, beans and yucca, cucumber and more according to each season.
Next to fruit trees like milkweed, bananas for example this vine which I really love, but tends to be smothering grows very fast and is capable of covering 100% of a tree, and although it has beautiful purple flowers that attract especially my pollinator friends like bumblebees and hummingbirds I can't let it grow over the small fruit trees I would be condemning them to an early death.
So we have been learning which weeds are really weeds and which are beneficial.
But there are also the misnamed weeds that are wild and contribute to the protection of our orchards and crops with their flowers.
As for example, the culantro that is used in Venezuelan cuisine in the preparation of soups, stews and meats, this reigns in the living spaces @vida.verde we love to have it we use it a lot even in salads.
As well as the famous dandelion that here there is a lot, but I'm leaving it to the rabbits, well I still don't have rabbits but I'm already thinking about them ..jijijijijij
Of the evil ones I also have the Guaritoto this is a plant with little hairs that gives you burning if your skin comes in contact with it, I think it has a kind of secret society of natural association between the ahuyama, always grows where we plant ahuyama to go unnoticed, as if to say my leaves and yours are similar here I stay and they will not take me out ... hahaha....
I love wildflowers and their beauty is really wonderful ,I share this video of some of the ones we have here 😍
I hope that you will also discover in your garden the good weeds among the bad ones and that they will bring you many flowers and pollinators.
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Malas o buenas Hierbas !? 🌱
"Malvada maleza cono creces ...!!"
Este es una de mis comentarios recurrentes en el jardin comestible
Pero en realidad son tan malas Hierbas...?🤭
Hey Hive Lovers espero que estén muy bien y que sus huertos y jardines estén llenos de frutos y flores.
La vida está llena de malas y buenas hierbas !!
Sin duda es un grandioso tema,diremos que está es para mí una parte polémica del jardín comestible.Estas malas o malvadas yerbas como yo las llamo pueden asombramos más de lo que creemos ..
Aquí mi participación de esta semana en Tema de la semana Malezas
Se que cada planta ellas cumplen su función en lo personal apuesto fielmente a los jardines sintropicos, aquí hay muchas plantas nativas realmente hermosas, pero hay varias de ellas que me han demostrado no ser tan amigables.
Así que toca limpiar constantemente los malvadas hierbas, que se pueden cruzan entre la productivas de las plantas que dan frutos.
En nuestro caso tenemos una zona en la huerta con bancales elevados esto nos ayuda a controlar un poco más las malas hierbas para estos cultivos pero también tenemos una zona de jardín comestible dónde sembramos, auyama, patilla, maíz, caraotas y yuca, pepino y mas segun cada temporada.
Junto a frutales como lechosa, platanos por ejemplo esta enredadera que realmente me encanta, pero suele ser asfixiante crece muy rapidamente y es capas de cubrir el 100% un árbol, y aunque tiene unas hermosas flores moradas que atraen sobre todo a mis amigos polinizadores como abejorros y colibríes no la puedo dejar crecer sobre los pequeños frutales sería condenarlos a la muerte temprana.
Asi que hemos estado aprendiendo cuales son realmente las malvadas y cuales las hierbas beneficiosas.
Pero también están aquellas mal llamadas malas hierbas pero que son silvestres y aportan a la protección de nuestros huertos y cultivos con sus flores
Como por ejemplo, el culantro que se usadas en la cocina venezolana en preparación de sopas, guisos y carnes.Este reina en los espacios de vida @vida.verde nos encanta tenerla la usamos mucho hasta en las ensaladas.
Asi como también el famoso diente de león que aquí hay por montón, pero se lo estoy dejando a los conejos, bueno aún no tengo conejos pero ya estoy pensando en ellos ..jijij
De las malvadas tambien tengo el Guaritoto esta es una planta con pelusa que te da ardor si tu piel se pone en contacto con ella, creo que ella tiene
una especie de sociedad secreta de asociación natural entré la ahuyama, este siempre crece donde siembramos ahuyama para pasar desapercibida, como que dijera mis hojas y las tuyas se parecen aquí me quedo y no me van a sacar ... jajaja..
Me encantas las flores salvajes y su belleza es realmente maravilla ,comparto este video de parte de las que tenemos aquí 😍
Espero que ustedes tambien descublan en su jardinn las buenas hierbas entre las malas y que estas les traigan muchas flores y polinizadores
Carmen Victoria Turmero
| I am audiovisual producer, nature lover, creator of the Ecovillage and Community Vida Verde , passionate about travel and architecture. |  |
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Hello,
I'm coming from @curangel recent post highlighting me and you. 😀
As a person in Georgia, USA I Et this post. We have an "evasive" plant called Kudzu growing crazy here. I don't like but but after doing some research on it, I ound out its edible and can make teas with it. I haven't tried it tho, but found that interesting.
Have a blessed weekend!
Hello a pleasure greetings from Venezuela. Wicked and good weeds can certainly amaze us ☺️
Thank you! Glad you liked this post...it's really wonderful that this invasive plant in your garden is a plant that you can get some benefit from now it's your turn to venture out and drink that tea.
I look forward to seeing that post tag me if you do. A wonderful weekend to you too blessings back !!!!
Thanks for joining in with your lovely post! A weed is never a weed unless it's unwanted, I agree!
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Thank you🪻💚🪻 Delighted to be here and share my passion for the garden 😊😉.