A Weird Hillbilly's Garden

[BIAD]

I need help. 

This has started growing around my Ponderosa Lemon tree.

Is it what I think it is?

Regardless what it is, I am going to blame it on the rabbits.

This reminds me of BIAD's foray into feeding the birds that sometimes visit my garden.
As mentioned before, years ago my wife and I took up all the turf (mainly moss and small blue flowers!) from my front,
side and back garden and replaced the surfaces with a membrane and tons of beach-pebbles. My better-half assured
me that has I got older, managing the large areas could be a chore I'd struggle with and it would be prudent to get it all
sorted before that time came.



Before this project, there was a set of paving-slabs for a path in our front garden which I took up and used as single
spots to step on in my side garden, stable places where I could set ladders and in some areas, position ornamental
plant pots for decoration purposes.

One of these slabs I used amongst the pebbles was where BIAD's bird-table fell onto during a violent wind we had recently.
After picking it up, repairing the damage and re-anchoring it a more secure way, I thought no more about it. Then a week
later, small strands of grass began to appear around the slab of impact... it was the damned bird-seed that had fallen off
during the table's crash and now -where once nothing grew except the little Speedwell weeds that managed to transition
from the front-garden through the gate, sturdy grass was sprouting up!
.................................

In the Banners thread, I mentioned that some weeds that had ventured onto the public (tarmacadam/asphalt ) pavement
outside my property were actually breaking-up the asphalt and the main culprit was the Dock Weed. I cannot begin to
explain how many times I've been on my knees out there hacking the soft root out of the wide cracks in order to save the
cheap-act the local Council had done to 'upgrade' the paving of the estate. The roots have made the flat surface bumpy
and undulated. These Dock weeds -with their easily breakable and pulpy roots, somehow can get into cracks and
devastate a much-harder substance than the roots themselves!



But my latest woes come from this fast-spreading chap, the Germander Speedwell (-although the image below was taken
from Missouri Botanical Garden. Org, that assured me it's also known as Corn Speedwell.) Hundreds of these buggers must
have watched the movie 'The Day of The Triffids' and decided to emulate the brutes!

The first image is the culprit that's destroying the public pavement, the second, third and fourth ones are regular visitors to my
garden!


Dock Weed.                                         Hairy Bittercress.                                 Smooth Cat's-Ear.                                     Corn Speedwell


(But oh, I wish I could grow melons!)