South Herb
Wednesday I got out there and started finding the edges of gardens. The weeds had gotten so bad that when my son mows he was leaving bigger and bigger swathes of weeds around them.
This post will also serve as a garden update for the flowerbeds.
East Shed
I didn’t have time to do a proper weeding, that would have taken days. I just pulled out the worst of it along the edging, on both sides.
Old North
I did the gardens in sun or soon to be in sun first.
North Corner
I spent a little more time on this garden as the gutter guys are coming on Thursday morning. There are stepping stones and if they needed to get in there, at least they could see the plants.
New North
Sometimes I’d grab handfuls of stuff, as in this garden, huge coltsfoot plants that had taken over.
West garden
This garden was a huge mass of wood sorrel and goldenrod.
West Herb
This garden had a lot of tall plants (tansy, catmint, mallow, comfrey) that needed to be tied up so he could mow the edges.
West Shed
We stored the stone for the walkways behind the shed. My son took the weedwacker and cleaned it out as the stone masons will hopefully be starting soon.
Then he knocked back all the wild blackberries from around the woodpiles.
Small garden and Anne raspberry patch
Then he did around the vegetable gardens.
Small garden and compost bins
Hibiscus, Big rose, and mountain laurel by Small garden
Big garden, north side with Jerusalem artichokes
Big garden, east side with rhubarb and comfrey
My son didn’t end up mowing, just weedwacking. I hope he gets the mowing done on Thursday!
My helper friend will be here on Thursday and it’s to be a nice day, so we will try to finish the Big garden’s mulching. I’ll go over it again for weeds also. Then the plan is to start getting the weeds out of the little trees’ cages.
I feel this post viscerally. After several years of selective weeding, most of my weeds now are things we use for food or medicine, but they still require attention. It's a minor project every day, and a big project every weekend.
This year I began mulching around the edge of my fences with grass clippings. This made it a lot easier to keep things under control in this difficult area.