Because we have a mold or something in the soil of our garden, we can no longer grow garlic or onions there. Our friends the Milnes, generously allow us to grow our garlic in their garden, so when David Milne mentioned that our garlic needed weeding, I quickly scheduled some time to go over to their house to weed it. He had told me the weeds were taller than the garlic, I assumed that he was exaggerating, but when I saw our garlic patch, it was clear that he was not. (photo above)
Usually when I weed, I sit on a stool, but this year the weeds in the garlic were so tall, I had to stand and bend over to do the job. It was tiring work. I pulled out several wheelbarrows full of weeds from the patch. It wasn’t helpful that there were a lot of mosquitoes buzzing around me the whole time I was working, but after a few hours I had managed to get the patch all weeded.
I have to weed the garlic every year, but this year there was a whole different ecosystem of weeds in the garlic. In the past, the variety of weeds that came up were shorter and the garlic stood out above them. It seems that this year David had gotten some manure from a different farmer, and that manure had a lot of seeds from lamb’s quarters and morning glory vines in it, and those weeds grew very tall and vigorously.
Below is what the garlic patch looked like after all that weeding.
My paintings can be seen at: davidmarchant2.ca
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