Hi Cameron,
Your garden looks a lot fuller than mine. I wish I had sown more sweetcorn now but I had no idea the weather was going to be so good for this and so bad for the vetch I did sow.
Anyway, I like weeds - well, the ones I know what to do with like
nettles and plantain (Plantago major). It was actually the latter which spurred me on to post about soil building, as plantain is a sign of poor soil. I have a feeling, though, to really soil build could take lots of money, as I can’t seem to produce enough biomass for all my garden needs (I make it into
compost rather than digging it in).
I hadn’t heard of Steve Solomon but I did learn on a Citizen Science course last year that weeds are good for helping to conserve water in the soil, amongst other things. So under my biggest patch of plantain, it is should be lovely and moist (I wish). The
nettles I dug out to get a squash plant in are coming back, though, no doubt spurred on by the water meant for the said squash. That’s probably for the best, as I will definitely have a crop of something rather than an empty tummy.
The tall, thin plants you see in the photo are Jerusalem artichokes. For better or worse, I have been growing them to eat but they do also produce some biomass.
Nice to see you’ve got borage. The drought here seems to have killed mine off.