If you have some outside space like me and also had a longer period of dry weather followed by some rain showers, that most likely means you also have all kinds of weeds starting to pop up in your garden.
Although in general I dont really care about this, when the weeds are popping up in between the stones it kind of starts to look like a jungle very fast and it is time to pull them.
Now some of these weeds are with a single root and are pulled even easier than you would pull out a hair out of your head.
But some of them are literally nested in the ground and you really need to dig in there to get everything out. Twist, pull, twist some more and come to the realization that most likely the roots are still in the ground.
I decided to look up these weeds on what they are and what is easy to do with them. With that, this also is a bit of an experiment in the AI search generators to see if they can come up with whatever these plants are.
Let's have a look!
Gemini comes up with Elymus repens or couchgrass. After looking up some articles on this that means this is kind of a bitch since this one has roots until 1 meter or depth and indeed. Removing this one is really annoying.
Grok all of a sudden decided that it wasn't going to help me anymore on image searches and I need to upgrade. So long for the free service Grok, it was fun while it lasted
Crap....
This one with the small little purple flower in there is the Lamium purpureum or 'Red Dead Nettle' according to Gemini and I think this could be true when it grows a bit more. This is also known as a healing leave but I have never used it this way.
What I know is that it spread fast and is hard to remove and herbicide is recommended which I dont really like as the dog also walks here.
So pulling is the solution for now. Let's hope it works.
This one was a tough one for the AI. It started with giving suggestions that it was 'Euphoria peplus' which is irritating on the skin when you touch it.
But this is never the case so after two or three suggestions and telling the AI that I live in the Netherlands it came up with Chickweed.
Stellaria Media -'The common Chickweed'
That sounds reasonable as this is the least annoying weed in the garden. You can pull it out with root and all in one shot and because of the long stems it is easy to reach.
Most surprising to me is that AI finds it so hard to identify this one because this stuff lives everywhere here and grows tall when you don't pull it.
The last but certainly not least. My first attempt in the AI says this might be the 'Plantago Major' or the 'common plantain'. I am not at all sure about this, and then it comes up with that this might be the 'Capsella Bursa-pastoris' which does not at all look like it.
So for this one I am not sure what it is, do you? What I do know is with this one it is quite easy to remove although you have to dig a bit to get all of it
Conclusion
Honestly, I had hoped that the AI would identify these plants a lot better than it actually did. I needed several attempts to find what it is and on that behalf the model still needs a lot of training in these kinds of things.
And why Grok stopped? Yeah that is another story, I guess nothing in life is for free in the end in these kinds of things. Bad timing on this, I really wanted to compare the two models to each other in their outcomes.
Apart from that...yeah the weeds are full flown at the moment. Sure I got a lot of them but in this phase of the year they will be back next week!