Oh also spent a lot of the afternoon staring closely at my backyard to notice slightly different shades and shapes of green, or more likely the tiny white flower of bittercress plants and snipe them before they can go to seed

It’s tedious and repetitive, but it pays off, after two years doing this for purple deadnettle I’m seeing only very isolated sprouts this year for stuff that apparently stayed in the seed bank for 3

Also clearing like 6 of the broadest and roughest-bladed, leggiest, or just badly shaped grass species, it helps that mowed-short grass seed mostly doesn’t travel that far so even if something survived to set seed previously there’s just a patch of special interest around there to focus on and I don’t need to go hunting all across the yards for rogues (though I can pretty readily distinguish between at least 20 grass species on sight – I can’t say “oh that’s #16”, but I’m like “oh, that’s one of those shorter-habited non-creeping non-bunchgrasses with more but thinner blades so it really cultivates moisture down there, but not the one that’s really more yellow-green towards the base or the one that feels fluffy”