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Started by winknasmile , Jun 14 2012 07:50 PM

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#1 winknasmile

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Posted 14 June 2012 - 07:50 PM

By gum, my hands are sore and a mess, my nails are a mess too. My knees and legs are tired BUT my gardens are CLEAN of weeds. Well, that's the veggies, the flowers we won't talk about!

Even though we're so dry and need rain so badly those weeds just keep on coming and growing so big.

To heck with the flowers, I'm going to enjoy a few days off my knees and do some pampering of my hands and nails. :nail:

Off to the shower I go, a happy woman! :cele:
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 08:26 PM

I know it's a big job----but I love to pull weeds and always have. I find it to be therapudic---good for my brain !

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Posted 15 June 2012 - 08:05 AM

Congrats.

Weeds are everywhere. How come they grow better than what we want to grow?

Enjoy your pampering! :nail: You deserve it.
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Posted 15 June 2012 - 10:29 AM

bet it makes you feel good - knowing you WON the battle!
..............................well this time anyway!

Like the others I too like to get out there and weed (making sure I get the root too so they are harder to grow back), Like to get out there early in the morning to do it with the birds singing and a cool breeze blowing and the smell of the flowers all around. Sometimes I forget how long I was out there and before long I go to stand and OUCH!
I better go in and sit a spell.
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Posted 15 June 2012 - 10:49 AM

Weeds are everywhere. How come they grow better than what we want to grow?


Wasn't that part of the curse after the Garden of Eden?


I'm also one that loves to weed. More so, the detail weeding of freeing tiny baby plants from the onslaught of unwelcome neighbors crowding in. I recently spent time in the onion bed. We're back in our own garden this year and the battle with the root-spreading grass and wild rose has been a constant problem here. So....trying to discern which is tiny onion and which is grass....harder than most. But my fingers usually can tell quite well. [Onion is thick, succulant plant and grass is just a 'leaf' type] But I spent almost two hours and didn't know the time had passed.


.....until I tried to stand up. Oye! I know what you mean, Wink!


MtRider [....gardening used to be a LOT more fun when it didn't hurt so much.... :rolleyes: ]

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Posted 16 June 2012 - 10:32 AM

All you folks that like to weed can come to my house! I have Bermuda grass that comes up everywhere. I think the only thing that seriously could get rid of it is by covering it with concrete. Although it would probably find a crack to come up in....

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"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."

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Posted 16 June 2012 - 09:53 PM

I too spent some time in the garden the last few days weeding. I got busy for a week and then it rained for 3 days so you can imagine how much the weeds loved that. It feels good to make progress...I did a little in my onion patch but still have the majority left to go.

It's crazy how relaxing pulling weeds is. Sometimes when I need some space I'll go down there just to pull a few weeds.

I've been running stringers off a high wire for the pole beans to climb up. We put in fencing for the cuke to vine up so that's finally done. I have more weeding to do but the cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower plants are just about done. My potatoes are blooming so hopefully in a few weeks we'll be raking in the taters, on and on and on.


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Posted 10 July 2012 - 09:09 AM

Compared to you guys I'm a lazy gardener! Since the heat wave, I haven't been able to get out and weed without risking a heat stroke! Since the garden is the only thing getting water around here the weeds went crazy. So, I took a old piece of carpet that the dogs ripped off of the stairs and used it to cover up the weedy spots. With the heat, it kills them in a couple days! I just move it to another spot once the weeds are dead. I've been weeding by hand in spots that are too tight for the carpet. Doesn't look the best, with carpet laying about the garden, but it does the job! :)
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 09:59 AM

I'm trying to get out there now....

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Posted 10 July 2012 - 12:08 PM

That is a hard day's work. You deserve a manicure, massage, cup of tea, and a bubble bath!

I was thinking yesterday that I might have a better garden if I had kept the weeds. Might have shaded my plants, and kept them from drying out, despite the watering we've been giving them.. And, maybe then the little wabbit, that's been eating my garden would have had something else to nibble on.

I hate weeding! Decided this year that 20-40 minutes a day was better than an all day weeding spree. I've been so pround of how well weeded my garden has been this year, but................
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 01:05 PM

I think I NEED to take out a timer with me when I weed!
Again I went out to weed vegetable garden for a bit today at 6:30 am and before I know it Lori is ringing the bell to see where I am?
It was 8:45 and she wanted to know how long I was out there - OOPS!
So I TRIED to stand up and walk back inside without falling over. Do carry the cordless phone with me whenever out there so I can call -just in case. AND always have water in the tote as well.
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 01:26 PM

I do take my timer out there. I set it initially for 20 min. I don't stay out there for more than 40 unless it is the end of the day for me. Otherwise, I would weed to the exclusion of anything else that needs to be done. Not being able to stand back up is never a good thing. Do you do the 'walk your hands up your thighs till your totally upright thing', AH? ugh
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