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[dark_phoenix54]

Finally we have (supposedly) about 4 or 5 days without rain, so I should have been at the painting job that the masking has, by now, turned into paper mache. But a migraine kept waking me up last night and I just felt too much like I was going to throw up, so I stayed home. Around the middle of the afternoon I felt good enough to go out and

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[memnet]

Weeds do have a way of creeping up on you and surrounding you before you even have a chance to realize that they're becoming overwhelming. I am sorry about the migraine; I am subject to sinus headaches, but I'm lucky in that I don't get migraines. I understand they're pretty awful

[oldhalloween]

Boiling water with salt in cracks on the cement and pavement. Then we use round up now on a good 50 percent of the property. Neighbors don't take care of weeds so we get all the seed.

[jjstarwalker]

Here in my garden, the runner grass is king, over grown lambs quarters second. THAT was easy to pull after our soaking rain, but only for a couple of days. I am going to get the tractor down there and just mow them down, even though I know that will be likely seeding more, so that the cultivator can mix them in a bit because I need the space to plant the fall/winter lettuce and spinach.

Hopefully next year we will be able to stay on top of it better (gardeners always have hope, right??) and with friends saving me oodles of paper feed sacks, in addition to the ones we empty, I may actually paper mulch everything I transplant and am considering putting it next to the seeded stuff... we will see.

But so much is up in the air for next year... will I have knees or not? Will we have something other than the cultivator on the tractor to work the soil? Right now, I am just holding my breath waiting for the 4 days of "August" to end (temperatures in the high 80s and I do not get along) and hoping that we have a coolish September.

[siduri]

The leaves are already starting to change here...hope the same, that it is not the start of some horrid early winter.