Weeding, weeding, weeding

Here's an update photo on the new beds in Cartwell 1 area.  All beds planted.  Plato's stuff toy red bug included in this picture.  He plays with that thing everyday.  I never know where I am going to find it.

Time to weed everywhere.  (It's always time to weed everywhere)

Cartwell Too cleaned up nicely.  

 It took 30 minutes to weed all three beds.  On hands and knees.  Next year I am going to space the rows of onions further apart so that I can use the tool shown below.

Cartwell 1

The scuffle hoe lets me stand up to weed.  Works great. All three edges are sharp.  It took 15 minutes to weed these three beds.  The onions in Cartwell Too were weeded with the hands tools shown below. 

Weedy Spinach

Oh Man, I let the spinach go too long.  It is way easier to weed the beds when the weeds are first sprouted and little.  If I ignore the weeds it ends up taking way longer to do the work.  Here's the tools I used to weed the spinach and the onions in Cartwell Too 

Hand weeding tools

It took me an hour to weed each one of the spinach beds. On my hands and knees, of course.

But it was worth it.  If I had waited much longer I might have lost the crop

Weeded Spinach

Looks Good.  But I weeded all seven of the cabbage beds pictured below in less than an hour. Less time than it took to weed one of the spinach beds.  I keep trying to stay on top of it.  Sometimes I slip up.

Master Chef Josh Hoy of the Flying W Guest Ranch says the cabbage is sweet tasting this year.  I'm glad he likes it.  I'm growing a bunch of it for him.    Back to weeding.   

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All gardening techniques, methods, and labor described in any posting of this blog are presented strictly to make you laugh and smile.  Any educational value you attribute to any of this is solely the result of your overactive imagination and my excellent story telling skills.  Do not try this at home, unless you know what you are doing or can build your wings on the way down.  Any use, misuse, or non use of the contents of this blog is your responsibility, but I would love to hear about it, especially if it's funny. Hopefully this blog will leave us both laughing.  I know it makes me laugh and one out of two ain't bad.  Remember:  YOU have got to make your own luck. . . and I'll take luck over skill any day.