Summer left the farm in a jungle of weeds and for the past two and a half weeks, most of our time has been devoted to weeding. In many beds, the coverage was so dense that we were not able pull the irrigation out without hand removing a hefty pile of weeds.
Weeding our beds was a three step process. First, we had to cut down all of the the big stuff with a grass whip, mattock, or some other large tool. Next, we got our hands dirty and pulled out all that we could from the surface of our beds. When it was time to start double digging, I had a hard time getting my shovel to penetrate the soil. My shovel constantly struck patches of grass that held the soil together underground. Finally, after double digging, we had to make one more sweep through the beds and pull up any grasses or roots that we were previously unable to get.
Although it was a very tedious process, it was worth the while because now everybody¡¯s bed looks nice and ready for planting. However, there is still an enormous amount of weeding to be done on the farm. After a couple hours of work, our class was able to weed and prep a little more than every other A bed, only a small dent in the amount of weeding that needs to happen on the farm.
Al
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Weeding our beds was a three step process. First, we had to cut down all of the the big stuff with a grass whip, mattock, or some other large tool. Next, we got our hands dirty and pulled out all that we could from the surface of our beds. When it was time to start double digging, I had a hard time getting my shovel to penetrate the soil. My shovel constantly struck patches of grass that held the soil together underground. Finally, after double digging, we had to make one more sweep through the beds and pull up any grasses or roots that we were previously unable to get.
Although it was a very tedious process, it was worth the while because now everybody¡¯s bed looks nice and ready for planting. However, there is still an enormous amount of weeding to be done on the farm. After a couple hours of work, our class was able to weed and prep a little more than every other A bed, only a small dent in the amount of weeding that needs to happen on the farm.
Al
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