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Reflection on Removing Horseweed

8/1/2019

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Permaculture theory talks about "do nothing farming" where plantings are designed to be taken care of by natural forces, leaving humans to be as lazy as possible.
Clipping down the Horseweed the way I did was not "do nothing farming". It was boring, disruptive to mini ecosystems living there, and now I am icing my hands after so many jolts with the clippers.
As I cut, I thought about how Nature would limit the number of weed seeds produced by these plants. The ideas I came up with were:
  • Fire
  • Smothering seeds after they landed with some sort of organic material
  • Growing trees in the area to eventually shade out sun-loving weeds
  • Animals eating the plants in the first place, so they don't make seeds.
Nature would never go in with a pair of clippers they way I did. It's good to reflect on this so I can build systems that are maintained by Nature, not by my lazy self.
Here are before and after pictures. I literally got too bored to cut it all down.
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