So I went out to trim some bushes...
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
Eugene, Oregon
October 16, 2021 6:00pm CST
Under supervision of course. It was some sort of fast-growing tall speckled leaf bush and it did need some shaping, so I figured 30 minutes tops, but then there was this other bush, not so big, but it shaded yet another bush too much and maybe it could just be dug up. It wasn't big, like I said and had only few limbs, so I cut them off with my loppers and decided to go ahead and dig out that puny root. I am now told that is was a red currant bush. How hard could that be?
Well, 45 minutes and two shovels and a pick later, I found out that this bush sends out roots all over the place, looking for water and stuff, I guess.
We have not seen the last of that bush, I'm sure. Little red currant bushes will be sprouting all over next spring.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
17 Oct 21
Gardening can be hard work but the rewards from it are well worth the time and labor spent.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Oct 21
I have never really enjoyed it for some reason.
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@DaddyEvil (174528)
• United States
17 Oct 21
@JamesHxstatic Oh, that's a shame. I love plants and spend hours messing with them. We've got houseplants everywhere as well as tomatoes (dying now) in the flowerbed. 
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Oct 21
@DaddyEvil My tomato plant is dying too. I may pick the green ones and bring them in.
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@popciclecold (40214)
• United States
17 Oct 21
Sounds like a lot of work to me.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Oct 21
At least twice as much as I expected when I want out there.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
17 Oct 21
Ohhh, interesting how nature has a whole underground network going on! I dread having to pick out weeds in a few months . . . I know I didn't pick out every bit of their roots out last season - and we just know they will sprout again. Nature always finds a way, doesn't it?
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Oct 21
It will be around longer than we are I am sure.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Oct 21
Too deep and spread out too, so we will see more in the spring.
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@LadyDuck (502573)
• Italy
18 Oct 21
@JamesHxstatic Those plants auto-seed now, as they drop hundred of seeds during the late summer. I pick up the young plant in Spring only leaving a few and I dig out the roots every end of Summer.
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Oct 21
Amazing that you have seeds that old. Must you dig out each year?
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Oct 21
We planted that one in the wrong place and forgot to pick the currants as well.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Oct 21
They certainly do and we seem to pick that kind readily.
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