Lot's of work today

I have to admit, I love to hear about other peoples gardens. Including the dirty task of weeding.I used to have a real problem with weeds, but I have been moving in a direction to eliminate a problem each year. Three years ago. It was bugs and weeds and irrigation. at the time I was reading a lot about Square foot gardening and growing my vegetables in containers. this year I have a large part of my garden in 5 gallon buckets. There seems to be two distinct benefits to gardening in buckets. The weeding is a lot easier, and reduced and I seem to get a lot less bugs. The irrigation is a little more difficult, but now that I've gone to a drip irrigation system ,things seem to be going a little smoother. of course you're limited to what you can grow in buckets but I seem to be locating more more varieties, which seem to do well in buckets. I am curious to know a little bit more about your composting system. I currently use 2 55 gallon drums configured in a compost tumbler setup. Picture giant a sand timer that rotates on the center axis end to end.I look forward to hearing more about your garden.

My weeds are horribe!! Anytime you want to make a trip to Missouri, you can come pull mine.. LOL..I don't mind.. It's been way too hot here to get out there. I will do it, but not in this heat and humidity. I do well to get out there and water it. It still is producing for me really well so I can't complain too much I guess.

Its been such a hot and humid summer, plenty of sun and rain. The garden and the weeds are growing like crazy. Its been too hot to spend much time doing work outside. I let my son do most of that work, he planted the garden. I like pickin and cooking then eatin the harvest. He just havested some purple beans, they turn green when you cook them. we have also had purple sweet peppers, they look and taste like a bell pepper. They also turn green when you cook them. I have gone out a few times and puled some weeds, this year the weeds have been growing like weeds. The misquitoes are bad this year too.

The weeds in my garden grow faster than my grass.I usually try to go out in the evening to do my weeding cause it's to hot in the daytime.I do not like weeding at all kinda are soo many little bugs and mosquitoes flying on me.

HI Grandpa B, The mosquitoes are having a party outside when i was weeding...I need to since the grasses were overlapping the melon already and I can't see them now! LOL! I was working half way and decided to quit since I was bitten a lot by mosquitoes..I will be finishing it tomorrow!

Yes. I have went through a ton of round up and I still need more of it. I go out and spray round up down every time that I cut my grass and weedeat, but the next time there is more and it needs it again.

Today was a beautiful day here, but opposite,it wasn't that warm today...thank goodness. I had a late start and I wasn't going to do my original plans as I did go out today to do some errands but then when I came home decided, heck..and went for it..You did gardening weeding and I did a "weeding" of a different sort. I had just recently gotten my new captain's bed with bookcase headboard...I managed to get it all assembled by myself and was finished on Wednesday and assembled it in the living room. I really wasn't looking forward to my next glorious task....my "weeding"--getting rid of the old to make way for the new...meaning I had quite the job ahead of me. First,lugging out the old mattress and boxspring and haul it all the way into the entrance hallway of my apt. Then dismantling the old bed and hauled out the pieces and left them in the living room..THEN, cleaning up the floor really well (had a lot of old dust bunnies under where the old bed was)...must have cleaned that floor about ten times to make sure it was sparkling clean. Then push the bookcase headboard in first, and then the new bed (with new mattress/boxspring) into the bedroom...So you see I sort of did my own type of weeding...just not the green plant type....LOL Now I would just LOVE to set a bonfire to the old mattress/boxspring and bed....want to drop by? I know you love fires....hehee

Same here, Bob! I have been doing nothing but pulling up weeds. This is coz of the monsoons. We don't get so many weeds during other times of the year. And now there are heaps of weeds all over the place. They really add to the value of the soil once they have been broken down. Cheers and happy mylotting

Our weeds are about the same around here I guess. Sounds like you have been very busy today. I have a few questions if you don't mind. 1. Do you weed when it is shady or in a sunny area? 2. Do you get down on your hands and knees to weed, or just sit down, just on knees or do you and a tool so you can stand up and do it? Sorry for the questions but I am just curious. I used to be able to weed but now it hurts my knees too bad and my shoulder and back can't take it. Also there is this thing that I am so scared of that I find in the flower beds and that is lizards. Not for me.

Here is a tool I use that revolutionized my weeding...It's called a stirrup hoe. Since I'm new I'm not sure how to include a picture but I believe you'll find it in my profile.

You sound very ambitious. I think the weeds have pretty much taken over my garden. It's like near the end of the growning season I guess though, although when I lived a townhouse the garden was protected by a wall and I was getting tomatoes almost until the first week of December. It's just been pretty dry here and there are no new blossoms. I'm going to plant some fall crops in a couple of weeks and that's going to be it I think.

hiGrandpa Bob wow you really have been very busy. As for my garden of weeds it needs mowing now,' lol all sorts of crappy grass and ivy and its' smothering out the few Moses in a boat that were' there when we moved in. they are a sort of ground' cover with rounded leaves and blue boat shaped blooms with yellow stamens, and the blue folded overpartof the bloom makes it look really pretty. Hatleyh 1001 california weeds.