Water water every where, but when is there time to weed. To say that things on the farm are farm are growing right along might be an understatement. We've received four inches of rain in the the last two weeks and it's all we can do the keep up with the weeds. Some how the farm had a four day spell of sunshine ending with Monday nights fierce thunderstorms. That gave us all of Sunday and Monday to wage war on the ever encroaching weed population of By George Farm. We started with the peas and swiftly moved to the summer squash bed. From there we just moved down the line, corn, potatoes, winter squash.....
It wasn't until the onions and carrots that we faltered. Maybe it was the heat of the late Monday after noon. Maybe it was the delivery before dinner service Monday night, or the 7:am alarm that morning but we halted our advance just past the cucumber bed. Tyson, being the master strategist, made one final move to plant a new bed of carrots just past the forgotten arugula bed. (It's not really forgotten, we just let it bolt so we could harvest the blooms as garnish) Also, our reinforcements came today. Three of the most beautiful hoe's I have ever seen! Self sharpening and long handled, the weeds don't stand a chance.
