Managing Bindweed: A Gardening Dilemma

Our new yard is full of bindweed, or morning glory, depending on who you ask. It creeps up from the swamp behind our house and under the yard, climbing and rolling over everything and causing my husband trouble. We try to be generally chemical-free outside, so these little vines of chaos often escape his wrath and pepper the yard with dainty, delicate white flowers in the morning. Hence the name, morning glory. They’re easy to pull up, but fiesty with fortitude, and grow back within two days or so. What would you do? I don’t have an answer to that question yet, but for now we have an uneasy truce where I ruthlessly yank them out of my garden bed but allow them to tendril and weave around the edges of the yard. So, do we have a bindweed problem or a morning glory blessing? It depends on who you ask.

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Hello friend, my name is Katie and pizza is my favorite food. Yes, I’m in my thirties and yes, I have three daughters that I’m raising and homeschooling and nagging, but I think you’d be most interested to know that I would eat pizza for every meal of every day and never complain. There was a brief time (ages 8-11) when I thought that mashed potatoes was my favorite food, but I’ve since come around. That being said, I don’t only talk about pizza. Here you will find slices of homeschooling life, home decor, cooking, musings, and an occasional funny meme. In fact, I think you will find a shocking lack of pizza content as a whole, but now you know the truth: Pizza is always close to mind.