I am back in the garden, and so is the oxalis weed.

After a two week Winter Olympic break I am back in my garden, unfortunate during my absent the oxalis weeds took over the entire garden.

There are two things I hate about gardening in South Florida, snails and oxalis weeds. I have come to the conclusion that the war on the oxalis weed is not winnable. They get into every corner of the garden, pulling it out becomes a full time job with very little results.

I don’t know about you, but when I see weeds in my garden it feels like the garden is dirty and it’s my responsibility to clean it out, (Now I understand my mother’s obsession with a clean house) and so the war goes on, winnable or not.

Battle against the Oxalis weed continues.

My garden continues to be inundated by the obnoxious oxalis weed. I am adding newspaper and lots of mulch in all the flowerbeds, this should hold it until early summer.

In another part of the garden I added the Spanish-needle weed (go figure!) this weed also grows wild everywhere by the side of the roads and in fields. What I like about the Spanish-needle is that pollinators love the flowers, this morning the bees were buzzing all over it.