Another stroll around the garden
The weather’s on the mend, everything is growing, so we decided it’s time for a video update.
First, a few notes, just one, really. It’s weed season. They grow faster than we can pull them out, hence the unaesthetic overall look. But we’re trying. Right after we schedule this post, we’re off to clear the beans and the lettuce, then spray the pumpkins for lice. Time and weeding wait for no one.
I enjoy watching your kitchen garden, Irina! Picasso will perform well. Don't you guys have a dog? Hares wouldn't step foot in your garden if you did😊
A push hoe. One of our farm neighbours (our farmers tend to be amateur engineers) developed two devices for their rather large (2-acre) garden. One was a spacing device mounted on a small wheel, for ease of pushing, which was used to ensure all rows were equally distant from each other. The second was a somewhat similar push-type implement, on wheels, with a blade. The push hoe fit easily between the rows and weeding became far less onerous. Weeding by hand was still an issue of course, in the rows (between the planted food) but the entire chore took far less time.