Garden weeding

June 11, 2005

The weather is finally starting to warm up and we’re facing the last resurgence of weeds on the property.  We’ve had so much rain that the grass and weeds are still growing.  Add a bit of heat to the mixture and this stuff goes like crazy.  We have weeded some areas 3 or 4 times this season and we need to weed one more time.  Luckily we had a bit of help with weeds in the garden today from Adonay. 

Adonay cleared all the weeds and aging sweet peas from the lower portion of the garden to make room for some summer planting.  He put all of those weeds and plants into the compost bin and then hauled in fresh compost for my mom to work into the vegetable beds.  The compost will provide more nutrients for the summer plants.  All of our weeds, grass, leaves, and old vegetable plants go into the compost bin and, combined with the California heat, we produce a lot of compost for the garden.  We use the compost primarily in the vegetable garden, but used it as well when we put in a small family orchard of fruit trees this winter.