Wow, what a wealth of information! How in the world did you find all of that? There is some great stuff here.

Thanks for sharing.

Hmmmm. I've only looked at the first list (of the 10 most hated weeds) and that didn't impress me at all, mostly because the person listed clover as a bad thing. "What it does is actually crowd out your grass and it attracts bees".

Well....bees NEED to be attracted, given the concern over pollinators as well as colony collapse disorder in honeybees...and I'd rather have a lawn of clover than of grass. It never needs fertilizing, it doesn't go brown in dry summers and it is cool and green and lovely. Oh, and it fertilizes the soil too.

Plus whoever wrote that article is too quick to suggest chemicals as solutions. Let me stress that I'm NOT a strict only-organic gardener, having been know to resort to glyphosate when tackling Aegopodium, but that's a last resort. I'm actually conducting a test, Stuart--solarizing vs glyphosate on Aegopodium. I'll let you know in a couple of months how it's going.:-)

Weeds are a interesting phenomena. Some people see their place in the ecosystem while others only see them as problems. I guess it all depends on what drives your opinion.

For example, a parent may not want to attract bees into the garden because their child is allergic to them and could suffer an anaphylactic shock. Therefore, they see clover as a weed to be avoided.

This isn't always the case though and some people are just prejudiced against certain plants, so I understand what you're saying Jodi.

BTW - I'm looking forward to seeing how your experiment comes along.