So I think there is something wrong with me. A serious undiagnosed illness. Something so unbelievable I glance around as I type it to see if anyone is watching me...
I enjoy weeding.
Sadistic some would say. Crazy stuff others would say. But I really do enjoy spending time outside, pulling weeds, listening to music and making the garden look all pretty. Of course sometimes I let it go a bit long and the rows end up looking something like this...
Look at the pretty okra row on the left, all nice and weeded. Then gaze upon the mess that is the green bean rows. That's a lot of weeds. But like I said, I do enjoy it-mostly. For an hour or so, or two, but when you have been weeding two and half hours and you now have this...
A little more than half a row done in two and a half hours. Ouch. But it does look nice. I remember having this problem last year right off the bat. Horrible weeds for one round and then once I got them out of there it was minimal for the rest of the summer.
In other garden news the whole laying mulch thing is sort of hit and miss. The areas that I put down the newspaper look great but the areas that I did mulch and no newspaper look like this...
Many weeds popping back through. So I think I will rake back the mulch, weed again, add newspaper and then mulch again. Also that pepper doesn't look very good, a couple of my peppers are a little yellowed. Not sure what is going on there-but everything else looks fantastic. The green beans are so smart, climbing their little green bean labyrinth and already reaching over 5 feet tall in some instances.
The squash, cucumbers and zucchini are also doing well and getting big FAST!
So now that I have updated everyone, I think I will head outside and finish up those two last half rows of weeding. Then I will be done, oh well except for re-weeding all the non-newspaper parts. By the time I finish that it will be time to start weeding everything else all over again...I guess it isn't organic to use Round Up in the garden right?
WOW!! That is a lot of weeding! YIkES!!
ReplyDeleteBut it is so worth it in the end! Looks great!