It's garlic weeding time. I lost a lot of it because I should have mulched it. We had sub zero temps for about a week with no snow cover. I had wondered when I was planting it where I was going to hang all of it to dry, and now I don't have to wonder because there will only be about half as much as I expected. The weeds came up before the garlic, so weeding has been a down on my knees job. Today I mowed the lawn for the first time, it was overdue. Now the flower beds look worse than before I mowed, something like washing half a window. The grass clippings were hauled down the hill to the asparagus rows. I water them with those black weepy hoses, and leave them in place over the winter. they will last longer if protected from the sun, so a thick layer of grass clippings does that, helps control weeds and when it breaks down, it feeds the plants.
