September 2026 - Kathi Keville

But also, it's just weeding time.

You know, today I was out in the garden, and I'm thinking about what I'm going to talk about on the show.

It seems like the perfect time to think about it.

And I'm weeding, and I think every time I get on the show, I'm talking about weeding clover endlessly.

And there I am today.

But I thought, you know, a lot of times people will say, what would you tell a beginning gardener? What kind of information? And I think about all the things I tell them about be careful of this or that and that if you're up here, it's really dry and hot and the ground isn't very good and you have to improve it and you can do that or you can do whatever.

And I always forget to tell them to avoid cute weeds that come up in their garden.

And so today I was attacking the oxalis.

And I love the oxalis.

It's very, very cute.

And that's gotten me in trouble with so many plants.

And I think, and I'm not even a beginning gardener, and I haven't learned that something that's very cute in the garden that's a weed is that I'm going to keep because I like it.

The first year, you're okay.

Second year, they're pretty.

Third year, they take over the entire garden.

And I think the oxalis is maybe my nemesis of all the weeds that I do.

It has these cute little white flowers.

It has a four-leaf clover-like leaf on it.

And then...

It has bulbs, but not just one bulb.

It has bulbettes, and it makes probably a dozen of those little tiny balls.

And if any of you have ever taken it out of your garden, you know you pop it out of the garden, and then these little bulbs, they just go off of the trowel, and they just fling everywhere around your garden.

You have to be very, very careful because they're planting themselves.

And then...

it has this time of year in the fall, I really try to make sure I get them out now because it has a very elongated bulb-like root, but has a point on it that gets very large right now.