Know your noxious weeds

 More obnoxious, but still. I think I am going to go by my newly coined (or maybe it has already been thought of) adage, "if the birds don't even want it, yoink it!"

I did the morning garden walk, followed by a bike ride, followed by placing my already stinky self into some previously stinky garden overalls, long sleeve shirt, gloves with rubberized hands so I could finally remove the bittersweet nightshade that had been running free along our fence, under a tree, and up another fence. I had read that it is not as poisonous as its name suggests but we've let this go for two summers and there are no creatures who are remotely interested in the bright red berries. I read that you don't want to compost it either. Nobody wants it. I had called it a "Viking" plant because of its purple and bright yellow flowers but it is considered an invasive. For good reason- the root system is a long runner type- you can pull and pull and it just keeps coming. Be prepared to wage a lengthy, years long battle with this. I loaded up a big black bag of it and realized there is a whole extra bonus patch of it where our ash suckers had come out last summer. Ugh. Tomorrow. I sealed up the bag and will leave it to rot in the bag or dry out or whatever it will do in there. As long as it does not continue to grow in our garden. 

I also pulled up what I believe was a buckthorn plant- dark purple berries that went absolutely EVERYWHERE so that will also be an ongoing task; a make-work project. pleh. 

Bittersweet Nightshade