Where is the garden???

[thistlebloom]

I say that those hot summer days are "good days" for weeding. The activity kills the weeds or the weeder. Either way, the task is accomplished.

Why do I always think I don't mind weeding? My lonely little brain cell only seems to remember those warm spring days when the weeds are juveniles and slip right out of the ground, the sun is shining and a soft breeze blows the sounds of bird songs through the air.
When I KNOW the reality is big reseeding overgrown weeds on a hot still day when ten million other things need my attention.

 

[Smart Red]

Like childbirth, thistlebloom? The joy in the spring over-rides the pain in the summer.

 

[so lucky]

I guess God gives gardeners the same selective memory He gives mothers.

 

[seedcorn]

Not to be contrary ladies, but if gardening was like child birth, I'm not gardening.......

 

[digitS']

We do have some advantages here in the Wild West, @thistlebloom .

Arid conditions are to our advantage in weed battles. Simply transplanting them because of moist conditions is discouraging. Daily rain must make weeding enormously difficult.

Sitting on a stool, wearing gloves, scratching weed seedlings out of the ground; Song Sparrows scratching around the veggies or singing in the raspberries; garden labor doesn't get too much better than that.

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

Not to be contrary ladies, but if gardening was like child birth, I'm not gardening.......

And yet you do. I'm betting that you don't like weeding -- spring or summer -- and do everything you can to prevent it.

 

[seedcorn]

I see it more like good guys against bad guys.

 

[Smart Red]

Love the good guys! Do you wear a white hat in the garden?

 

[seedcorn]

In spite of AG workers stereotype, don't wear hats, caps, etc.

 

[Smart Red]

Good guys; white hats

Bad guys; black hats

Sorry if I'm drifting off toward the ridiculous. Time for bed, I suppose.