It really does take some determination to be a poppy in monsoon weather: buffeted by winds, drenched with sudden heavy bursts of rain and occasional sharp hailstones ... but the ones that have bravely flowered are doing ok. So, alas, are the forests - the groves - the thickets of tumbleweed. I spent chunks of today pulling it out of the front yard, but I can see the thick layer of just-sprouted leaves waiting to shoot up. And the problem with simply turning it all over, and sieving it, and then putting down mulch is that interspersed with the wretched weed are a whole lot of enthusiastic self-seeded sunflowers from last year's bumper crop ...
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