Bolted Spinach
If you look very closely at the picture above you will see three rows of bolted spinach nestled among the grass.
Close up Bolted spinach
This has been a very trying garden year. With the 100 degree days, I have not been out to the garden as much to do the work.
Weedy Snow Peas
To compound the problem, the Platt Garden is grassy to the extreme. Any non-weeded patch of soil becomes a lawn. Above,the grass has attacked my giant snow peas.
Weedy Garden paths
The folks who splurged for straw were the smart ones this year.
I rarely do the straw thing. I tend to be a fan of the hula hole, which allows me to weed most my garden without hand weeding. This includes the rows.
A few minutes of hula holing once a week for a few weeks and my garden was good to go. The weeds stop coming. But not this year.
The weather kept me away and the grass took over.
Cardboard Weed Barrier
So I am now on the defensive and the name of the game is cardboard.
I have used cardboard on all of my rows and will have to put in the extra hours to weed all of my beds by had (UGH!!!) And I will need to do that for the rest of the year.
For now, I had to turn over my radish and spinach beds without getting a harvest.
Ready to Plant
