Wonder Weeds

Saturday morning every single weed was pulled from the garden beds. Saturday afternoon they needed weeding again. They didn’t get it. Why is it so easy to grow grass in the garden and so hard to grow it in the lawn? Perhaps the whole lawn should be dug up and planted to vegetables. Once the grass took over it could just be mowed.

The leaves in the spaghetti squash, lettuce, mustard and kale are covering the ground well enough that there is no need to weed. Weeds are pulled only when they grow up through the vegetable leaves. The only consolation is that the weeds help fill the compost pile. Some people say that weeds should not be placed in the compost pile. That would be a terrible waste of biological material.

So far this year the BT has only been sprayed once. The stinky stuff to repel the deer has been sprayed about 5 times, but I forgot and the deer have apparently ruined 2 cherry trees. Not much point in spraying now but they were sprayed with BT.

David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/