Here are a few tips about weeds which have helped me to at least feel like I'm ahead: 1. Don't water them. Of course, you can't control when Ma Nature does it, but you don't have to help her. Since I've started switching from sprinklers and soaker hoses to plant-by-plant drip irrigation, I've noticed far fewer weeds in un-irrigated sections of the garden. The same goes for feeding. If you broadcast fertilizer, in any way, you're feeding weeds as well as plants. You only need fertilizer in the rootzone of the plants you want. Be very careful with foliar feeding, and only use it when you can be sure you're restricting it to the leaves of good plants, and not hitting weeds as well. 2. Don't compost the weeds you pull. A couple of years ago, I Started collecting this stuff in large plastic bags, and putting it out as yard waste, which is picked up and hauled away by the town. Lacking that service, I'd probably burn them. Unless your compost is really hot, viable parts of weeds, including seeds and rhizome sections will reappear in the compost, and wherever you use the compost. 3. Hoes are great tools, and I use a few regularly; a scuffle hoe and both a long and short-handled circle hoe. However, I only use them as a stop-gap, to halt the growth of weeds until I can collect them up and dispose of them. If you leave the hoe-cut weed parts in the garden, they'll grow back in short order. I cut them down with the hoe, and then rake up the debris, including the soil they were in, and toss it all. Apart from all that, I weed all day, every day. I stop and pull weeds everywhere I go in the garden. I have little piles of weeds in one corner of each bed, which I gather up a few times a week. I do the same thing with rocks. My native soil is full of rocks, in sizes from Pea to Potato. As I dig and plant and till, I pick up any rock larger than a marble, and stash it in another corner of the bed. Once a week, I schlep a 5-gallon bucket around and gather up all of these little piles. Eventually, I'll have enough to mulch my entire succulent bed.

Donna, you and your family and EVERYONE who is in the eye of this horrible storm will be in my thoughts and prayers. I am just sick about it and can't believe it could happen again. It seems like recovery is just setting in for so many that were crushed by Katrina and now this. :(

Tomorrow my neighbor and I are doing a yard/craft show thing here in our yards. It's only from 8-1, but what a pain getting ready! I am focusing mainly on selling burp cloths, binky bibs and some bonnets that I had made for a craft show we were supposed to do that got cancelled. That stuff is already and priced but then I just hauled 4 boxes out of the basement to price...hahaha. I'm kind of sad, this neighbor rents the house next door, and the landlord just told them that when their lease is up in August he is selling the house. They are trying to buy it, but that might not work out for them. This is the first time any of my neighbors have become good friends, even her DH and mine getting along really well. I am keeping positive they will be able to buy the house, and they won't move, and I won't have to worry about breaking in new neighbors!LOL That's the side Lucy's pen is on, so it takes special people to live next to her...hehehe Jayme and boyfriend will be over Sunday to watch the race with us, and Wednesday for a bbq.... have a safe and happy weekend all! Lisa

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