If the abundant asters, Japanese anemones and the newly-revived roses didn\u2019t convince me that it\u2019s fall, the weeds certainly would. \u00a0Suddenly the crabgrass\u2014scourge of the summer lawn and garden\u2014is gone and the onion grass is back. \u00a0I took the first tentative strands of it out today, while I was dividing some tradescantia. \u00a0More will certainly follow, as I know there are large onion-y clumps waiting just below the surface of the back lawn. \u00a0In another day or so they will make themselves so obvious that it will be impossible to ignore them.<\/p>\n
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The old religions\u2014Greek, Roman and Norse\u2014all had mischievous gods who played tricks on humans as well as on brother and sister deities. \u00a0I am quite sure that someone like the mythical trickster Loki thought up the whole idea of onion grass. If I were going to mete out a punishment for that particular offense, I would sentence him to dig up big clumps of it for all eternity armed only with a dull knife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If the abundant asters, Japanese anemones and the newly-revived roses didn\u2019t convince me that it\u2019s fall, the weeds certainly would. \u00a0Suddenly the crabgrass\u2014scourge of the summer lawn and garden\u2014is gone and the onion grass is back. \u00a0I took the first tentative strands of it out today, while I was dividing some tradescantia. \u00a0More will certainly … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,2],"tags":[405,407,404,406,112],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall","category-general-interest","category-spring","tag-crabgrass","tag-fall-weeds","tag-onion-grass","tag-weed-removal","tag-weeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}