Cut corners you ask!!! Hmmm my list would be way too long to list here but I will share with you that last fall I dug up some daylilies with the intent of moving them to a different location. Well they sat on a section of lawn unplanted all winter. This spring when I saw some signs of life I decided to go ahead and plant them anyway. I think their resilience is amazing. On a different thhread Wendy was nice enough to post some instructions on how to post a thumbnail from Picasa. If you double click on the photo it should enlarge.

idabean, I don't think that's a bad idea at all, as long as the weed isn't going to seed. I do that all the time. Good organic matter & mulch for your garden!

Katy - realy pretty daylily! Do you remember the name? I must say though, that picture of you at Picassa from when you were testifying undercover is not one of your more flattering.
Deb

I do that with my weeds too sometimes, Marie. :-) I agree with veilchen. It saves time and energy too, right?

Another weed-tucker-underer here...

Or, depending on the bed, I toss them to the very back, behind shrubs. Except for garlic mustard, which I toss into the lawn, so the seedlings get mowed.

I also tend to put dried leaves at the bottom of pots for drainage and potting soil conservation.

giboosi...

lol We do that too..throwing them in the back behind shrubs that I can't see. I don't always do this, I usually bring along a large 5 gallon bucket with a handle to put them in, but if there are only a few here and there and I didn't plan on pulling weeds and don't have the bucket, why walk back to get it? [g]

'why walk back to get it?'

To get an excersise and skip on a treadmill [g]

...at least that is a my excuse of not going to fitness club.

Shortcuts? Nah, no way, not me.

Well, OK, I throw my weeds onto the lawn, along with spent flowers and various other garden refuse. This morning I was out with my camera at 6 AM and noticed one (of many) tall mulleins was clobbering a nice lacecap hydrangea. I yanked it and dropped it on the lawn, and noticed about 12 hours later that it was still there, and even more unattractive laying dead on the grass than it had been alive in the shrub border. It's still there ...

I use under-cooked compost when building a new bed. It's always full of sticks and clumps of gawd knows what. Anything that sprouts through the mulch will be pulled up later; I just don't have the time to sift the stuff, plus I can't bear to see the worms getting beaten up in the sifter.

Here's my worst sin. The area I fondly call The Woods was partly cleared out of some short wide blue hollies last year, and the disturbed ground is now covered with garlic mustard and various other nasty weeds. Instead of spraying or tilling, I used quarter sheets of plywood (left over from a big project) to cover the whole area. When I have my new plan ready, hopefully this fall, I'll pull up the plywood and (I hope) everything underneath will be dead. I was able to position the pieces so that the few salvageable plants in the area are still exposed, and it's a small fraction of the ground that now needs weeding. It doesn't look very nice, but it can't be seen from outside that area.

Nan/DTD: too funny! A reply I made early in the thread was that it is pure laziness that keeps me collecting the weeds and walking all of 30 yards to the compost pile. And since I now need to use both hands to push myself to a standing position, a bucket is too much to contemplate, especiallly if I forget it in the previous spot. I also find myself weeding on my stomach, to avoid getting up and moving a few feet or crawling on my knees like a religious pilgrim (weeding has long since ceased to be any kind pilgrimage to sanctification. It is now work, or sometimes penance for inflated notions about the beauty of my garden.)

I found myself rooting with my bare hands in the compost pile, tossing aside half rotted limes, to fill a bucket...because I forgot my shovel, trowel and gardening gloves.

While I was in there like a pig in s---t, I kept coming across small plastic bags, which I recognize as having once contained liquified produce from the bottom of the produce bins. In this case, all of us are too lazy or squeamish to open said bag and let the contents out....so we take the short cut of throwing bag and contents into the pile. The funny thing is, these bags do actually end up empty. where do the putrid contents go?? Seriously, I came across a liquified avocado yesterday that looked just like something out of a Kay Scarpetta mystery...she's the medical examiner who specializes in forensic body fluids.

Whose dinner did I ruin?

There is still small sapling that I pulled out of a retaining wall laying on the back "lawn" (okay, strip of grass/weeds mix that is between said retaining wall and the deck).

I throw most weeds in the lawn, in the woods, or in the driveway - depending on which is closer. Apparently I need more hostas so I can just tuck them underneath!

Cloud9,
The daylily is Tahitian Torch and is a tetraploid which means it is a plant with twice as many chromosomes as normal (diploid) daylilies. They tend to have more intense flower colors, thicker stalks and broader foliage. If you email me your shipping address I would be happy to mail you a hunk in Sept. DonÂt try to email me through GW I wonÂt get the email. In regards to my portrait on Picasa I thought it looks rather butch, but to be honest its much better than the one on my drivers licence.