I think I have explained that my method of weeding is only
pulling the things that I know, with 100% certainty, are not vegetables. That
generally means things that burn me, stab me, or are clovers.
These little ****ers are my favorite to hate:
In quechua they are called “alco quishka” directly translated
would be “dog thorns” but I would more accurately translate as “spiky bitches”.
They tend to be scattered among what Gray calles, ‘spiny
nettles’ (sp?). I have no idea what their American English name would be, so we
will go with that henceforth. These ‘spiny nettles’ don’t hurt at all if you
brush up against them with a certain grace. But, if you are going in to pull
them out of the ground, they somehow know it, and with tiny little poisoned
spikes burn the shit out of you for about 20 minutes.
This problem is solved with garden gloves, thanks mom, but
the “spiky bitch” problem is not so simple. They go right through my rubber
gloves. Once it actually drew blood and I continued destroying the damned plant
while the finger of my glove filled with fluid.
As you can imagine, the weeding process is slow, to say the
least. This is what I started with two days ago:
hopefully I will get the before and after pictures up in the
next few days. I am darn proud of this little green patch.
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