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Category: Liberty's "Victory" Garden | Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:49 pm

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This isn't a lesson in how to weed. It's lessons I've learned in a very short time (three weeks) of working in a garden. I would assume that many of these lessons will have you seasoned gardeners nodding your heads and saying, "Yep, know that one."

First off, the last real day I was able to spend in my garden was Sunday. Working Mon-Wed has given me only a little time here and there. I'm off for the next four days and the first thing I did when I woke up this morning was run out to see how the "kids" were doing. I spent the next hour weeding. While I was weeding my mind started making a list. Five quick thoughts came to mind.

Here they are:

1) I think weeds would survive a global nuclear event, with a volcano and a blizzard thrown in.

2) Don't turn your back. Weeds watch for that and that's when they pop up.

3) Fingernail polish is a girl's best friend -- it hides the dirt.

4) I now understand why my husband said, "After we plant, you're on your own."

5) Dang it, that wasn't a weed!






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toni wrote on Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:52 pm:

You catch on quick for a beginner :)

My husband will build anything I want/need for the garden and be my pack mule, but after that I'm on my own out there.
#5...I just said that this morning. Cleaning out the strawberry pots I pulled up something that I sort of remember planting in one of the pots last year, so it is repotted to see if it survives my heavy hand.

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OrangeKing wrote on Sun Jun 26, 2011 11:16 am:

As we all know, it's a good idea to hoe between rows of vegetables to keep the weeds down. I used to put the garden line down between the markers to guide me - until I accidentally put the line between the wrong markers and hoed right through the middle of a row of carrots!
These days I sprinkle a (very) few radish seeds along each row shen I sow the vegetables. The radish germinate very quickly, marking the row very nicely, and are harvested long before they have any affect on the vegetables.

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flowerdotti wrote on Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:20 pm:

@OrangeKing"Good Idea"

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