Could weeds actually be useful in the garden?

When I saw this question, I had to chuckle a bit because at the time that I'm recording

this, there have been a lot of weeds on the side of the roads, in yards, in other places,

and I have to tell you that now that I'm starting to see what they are, I'm starting to look at weeds in a new light. Right now,

white clover is popping up everywhere. And I remember thinking, oh, that's so ugly. We need to mow that

down. But that has changed. I look at weeds a little bit differently now that I understand that

their purpose is more than just an area that's a little bit differently now that I understand that their purpose is more than just

an area that's a little bit wild and uncultivated. I see many of those flowering weeds as

beneficial plants for pollinators and other reasons. But let's talk about weeds in your garden.

Could they actually be useful? Well, there are

some uses for weeds in the garden that I've found, and this is probably the first year I've

fully embraced it. I have been using this spring what a lot of people would consider nuisance weeds

intentionally in my garden. In fact, I planted crimson clover and

hairy vetch in different places in my garden as living cover crops, living mulch plants. And you may

research living mulch and you can get an idea what I'm talking about. And I didn't do it in my entire

garden because I'm still having a hard time with it with the looks, I guess. But in one particular

bed, I have my cabbage planted and I have crimson clover and hairy vetch underneath it. And as the

crimson clover started to flower this spring. It's gorgeous and the bees love it,

obviously, but I noticed that it's everywhere on the roadways, like I said. So it's something that a lot of

people just see as weeds as wildflower. But legume cover crops that we often consider weeds

like crimson clover and like white Dutch cl clover it actually is good because it helps fix nitrogen

into the soil and so in that sense those weeds can be good for your garden another common weed

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