It's a government HUD foreclosure house and the back yard is a total jungle. Insane; had 14 trips in a U-Haul to the landfill with beer cans and dirty diapers. The yard has some serious issues? 3 city lots all fenced but total jungle. Sat vacant for several years before government listed it for re-sale. Pretty sure there was a nice landscaped yard years ago, has concrete flower beds and stone walkways hidden under overgrowth. Lambs quarters; figures? The corn seems to be doing good? Hahaha

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Writing FB posts, so will share more here too. Today’s thought for California Invasive Species Action Week - Do No Harm. Individual choice can have disastrous affects on wild lands and the ecology. Did you know that Citrus Greening - the disease that has almost wiped out Florida citrus crops and is now in California was most likely brought into CA illegally by a backyard gardener? http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74155.html And, to Florida through illegally imported plant material? https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/microbes/citrusgreen.shtml Other states have Japanese beetles that feed on about 300 species of plants, flowers, and fruit; squash vine borers that attack vine crops of summer squash, winter squash, and pumpkins (I know gardeners that can’t get any summer squash at all anymore without a great deal of extra work, most just give up) and Tomato yellow leaf curl where it is not uncommon for losses of 100% to be experienced in fields with heavily infected plants. The host plant can be very different than the ones we see infected. There is solid reasoning behind our laws and quarantines that no plant material (living, dried, bulb, tuber, rooted cuttings, cuttings) may be shipped in to California unless it is from a company with phytosanitary certificates. https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PE/transport_animals_plants.html We are free from many invasive insect, weed and disease species that wreck havoc on agriculture and environments in other states and countries. Our State is surrounded by natural barriers — towering mountains to the north and east, scorching desert to the south, and vast ocean to the west. Most plant pests cannot cross these barriers on their own; however, the State is under constant threat of pest introductions by man. Do No Harm. Please continue to spread the word that trading out of state plants into CA is illegal and a really really bad idea. (last bit from https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/pe/ExteriorExclusion/borders.html ). Thanks!

I find the occasional wild pear sapling in the woods behind my property. I'm not sure if they're 'callery' pears though, since I have a big Asian 'sand' pear tree in my backyard... the deer love the fruit and I'm sure they poop the seeds in the woods. That tree was planted in the mid 1970's so I have no idea what rootstock it's even growing on. Mimosa is everywhere down here, there were two big ones in the backyard of a rental property I recently bought. The first thing I did was to cut them down... they look soft wooded, but I must say I was surprised at how tough that wood is to cut. The biggest invaders in my area are Chinese Privet, Chinese Tallow, and Camphor tree. In drier areas with sandy soil it's not so much a problem, but areas with ample moisture are usually totally infested with it.