Rewilding My Lot

Common Hedge Parsley (Torilis arvensis) is a weed that when it first grows looks like carrot leaves. The tiny white flowers look innocent enough, but the seeds that form later are covered with hooked hairs, hence one of its other names being Tall Sock-Destroyer.

Common Hedge Parsley is annual, so if I want to remove it, that is best done by uprooting or cutting down the plants before they go to seed. Now that I can recognize it by the flowers, I am doing that (mostly cutting rather then uprooting so as not to disturb other plants and to let the roots decay in the soil).

I do not wish to destroy my socks.