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Where bare earth stood, the bindweed sprout is a foot high, the purslane a foot across and the galinsoga putting out its first flowers.

I was tugging chickweed in early May, only to find the emergence of galinsoga.

Chickweed is a weed of winter, galinsoga one of summer.

This is the nub of the May problem; it is a confused month that at our latitude doesn’t know whether it’s chickweed or galinsoga, wren or hummingbird, spring or summer.

I am in a constant tug of war with seedlings of purslane and galinsoga.