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Bulletin, Progressive, Record, Reporter Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 9B Weeds: pull 'era up or. leave 'era be? ACCIDENTAL GARDENER MONA HILL Staff Writer mhill@plumasnews.com Mona Hill Staff Writer mhill@plumasnews.com Most gardeners know that old saw, "A weed is just a plant in the wrong place." Emerson said a weed is a plant whose virtues hadn't been discovered yet. What makes it a weed, who says? I was listening to an NPR's Science Friday segment "Time to Stop Picking on Weeds and Non-Natives?" on the way to work a few weeks ago. Guest Richard Mabey, the author of "Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants," defined it as, "A weed is a plant that gets in the way of your plants." The other guest, Mark Davis, DeWitt Wallace profes- sor of biology in McAllister College, in St. Paul, Minn., addressed the definition of invasive species -- almost always non-natives. Accord- ing to Davis, the term inva- sire is overused. I understood him to say that it's often used in the context of non-native species. He thought that was odd given that so many state flowers are not U.S. natives. I got to thinking about all the thistles I think are so pretty in bloom -- definitely weeds, but pretty ones. Another garden author on the Internet thought Cali- fornia poppies that don't stay where she put them could be called weeds in that instance. Myself, I have daisies growing everywhere on my property -- volunteers all and I love 'em. I'm encourag- ing them to spread and take hold in the wilder areas of my 1-acre lot. It's such a massive area that Steve would stroke out ifI bought out all the nurseries in Plumas County to plant it up. Besides that, I'd have to grovel on the ground to plant them all. I'd be walking like a gnome or in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. Clearly, the only solution in that case would be to hire a full-time gardener and wheel along beside her, driving her crazy instead of Steve. I see a second stroke coming on at the expense of it all. Personally, I like a mix. I want lots of low care and plenty of scented flowers. Right now, the stock an d nicotania perfume my front porch in the evenings. Lovely, heady smells. You know, it's amazing what a little sunshine can do for vegetable gardens. Mine is growing great guns with beans, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, corn and Brussels sprouts. I thought I'd lost my green thumb after all the years at Tahoe. Trying to grow in decomposed granite during a two-week growing season (well not really, but definitely shorter than our short season), definitely is taxing. It helps to have one leg shorter than another at 7,000 feet too -- level is hard to come by over there. I think I cornered the Tahoe market on Kellogg's Amend, trying to build up the soil. That's where I developed my gardening mantra, "If you water, it will grow." I still have to water, but with careful planting and soaker hoses and timers, it's not nearly as arduous as it was last year. The rooster and I have come to terms: He gets the salad beds until September. Sigh. I do know that at least one of my mixed up vines is a zucchini, I've been picking zucchini for a while now. Did you ever notice how there's always one zucchini that hides until it becomes a con- tender for the world's biggest zucchini? How does it do that, year after year, when I know darn good and well there's a monster lurking in the zucchini patch? Never mind, I happen to love stuffed zucchini. I did run down to California Sister, Rocki Eriksen's nurs- ery near Twain for a tour. With an emphasis on non- natives, her nursery is full of possibilities, all good for the Canyon and Indian and American valley elevations. She gets most of her from Floral Native in Chico. 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