{"id":11053,"date":"2025-07-07T17:42:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T21:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11053"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:42:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T21:42:34","slug":"its-a-battle-who-will-win-the-weeds-or-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/07\/07\/its-a-battle-who-will-win-the-weeds-or-us\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a battle: who will win, the weeds or us?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As our weather has settled pretty well, with us getting rain every few days and warmth in between, the plants are looking good, including the sweet corn we’ve planted twice. But then, so are the weeds! Holy cow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen such lamb’s quarter and pigweed. We could hardly see our poor peppers.<\/p>\n

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With rain and warm weather, our second planting of corn is coming up very well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I took the riding mower and mowed on both sides of the double row in the Sand Garden. Then Will ran the rototiller down the middle and on both sides, where I’d mowed. It was looking better. Yesterday, I went at it and hand-weeded around each plant and yanked up a bunch the tiller had bent over, not tilled up. With my sore knees, I went slow, just bending over to weed several plants, then taking a break to sit on the golf cart. I’d move it ahead and when I’d rested a bit, I went at it again. Slow? Yes. But it all got done.<\/p>\n

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fter spraying the potato bugs, Will got busy and hilled the two long rows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will had been busy tilling next to and then weeding and hilling up the two long rows of potatoes in the Wolf Garden. And he discovered we had an infestation of potato bugs. Before he hilled, I got the pump-up sprayer filled with Bt and sprayed the heck out of all the plants. This organic spray only kills bugs that eat the leaves, not butterflies and good insects. I found I could slowly drive the golf cart down next to the rows and spray seated. My knees were very happy about that!<\/p>\n

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Now the rows have been tilled, it’s hand weeding between the plants and, hopefully, mulching.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But then I went ahead and ran the rototiller down the bean and corn rows and back. Yep, that was slow too, as I ran the golf cart down, ahead of the tiller, on the next row over, straddling the row, so I could take a rest in between tilling. It was hot and I was sweating, but it looks so much better! Today, I’ll go out and do a couple more rows. Will’s at it right now. Then, we have to hand weed between the plants. Not looking forward to that one bit.<\/p>\n

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With all the necessary work, we still take time to smell the flowers. Isn’t this rose beautiful?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As our weather has settled pretty well, with us getting rain every few days and warmth in between, the plants are looking good, including the sweet corn we’ve planted twice. But then, so are the weeds! Holy cow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen such lamb’s quarter and pigweed. We could hardly see our poor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11058,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions\/11058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}