March Madness

This weed is amazing! It's kept me bent double weeding for the past several days. I couldn't find it in any of the local weed indexes, but finally identified it as Little Bittercress (Cardamine Oligosperma).


It's a member of the Brassicaceae family which includes mustards and cruciferous vegetables (your broccoli family). The Genus is Cardamine.

It has a fabulous quantity of roots when in loose soil and seems to flourish in any environment. The poorer the soil, the sooner it sets bloom. When the seeds mature they spray explosively at the lightest touch. They are generally easy to pull up.

I am so ready for spring. My lettuce seedlings need to be transplanted, but the weather is still quite volatile so they're going to have to wait a little longer.


We got rain for the next three days.