Veganic gardening tips: Dealing with weeds

weed is any plant growing where you don’t want it — whether it’s an oak tree, a rose bush or a dandelion. There are a certain number of plants that we have been conditioned to think of as always being weeds: thistles, brambles, stinging nettles, and so on. However, all of these are hugely important to wildlife (and can be to us, too): thistles produce attractive flowers — good for butterflies and many other pollinating insects; brambles produce blackberries — good for us and many bird species; nettles