Last October, when I first ventured across the street on my weed walks, the goosefoot vegetation was tall enough to look like shrubbery. Among the thriving mugwort, goosefoot and nettles I found a tomato (with a single unripe fruit) and a sturdy black nightshade.

  During the winter I looked expectantly forward to spring season in the Goosefoot Paradise. However, spring and summer became, instead, an on-going saga of weeding.

  The faded beauty and frosty character of many contributions from this S-weed patch, inspired the choice of a scrap of lace to serve as the knot for the path through its seasons.

S-weeds from the Goosefoot Paradise

OCT 09

Lycopersicon esculentum

OCT 10

Chenopodium polyspermum

OCT 16

Crepis tectorum

OCT 25

Solanum nigrum

NOV 24

Urtica dioica

DEC 05

Matricaria perforata

DEC 06

Spergula arvensis

DEC 26

Rumex longifolius

DEC 29

Chenopodium album

JAN 03

Crepis tectorum

JAN 05

Solanum nigrum

JAN 24

Pastinaca sativa

MAR 02

Urtica dioica

MAR 14

Chenopodium polyspermum

MAR 26

Chenopodium suecicum

 

Spring Raking

APR 09

Pastinaca sativa

APR 12

Urtica dioica

 

Seedlings

 

Loosening the soil

 

Slow recovery

JUN 18

Chenopodium polyspermum

JUN 19

Persicaria maculosa

JUN 26

Lamium confertum

 

Half and half

JUL 15

Lamium purpureum

AUG 02

Persicaria lapathifolia

 

August growth

AUG 23

Stachys palustris

 

Uprooting

DEC 09

Chenopodium polyspermum
in memoriam