"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." from Henry David Thoreau's Walden

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Weeding

Weeding is a tedious and necessary part of gardening. You plant things you want, you pull things you don't want. There a couple ways to try to avoid weed growth (though I've been assured the battle is never won). One is mulching. When things start to sprout, mulch with woodchips or what have you around your seedlings to keep anything else from coming up. There are different mulches for different plants, though I think woodchips are a pretty safe bet. Mulching with compost is also a good idea. The other thing is clover. Clover is a pretty active ground cover that a lot of people weed, but I read in "Great Garden Companions" that it's decent at preventing other- more harmful- weeds from taking root. So for now i'm leaving the clover, if it starts to look threatening I'll pull it. 

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