Another bucket'o'weeds

The recent rain has done two things. Spurred the weeds into growth, and softened up the ground so that it's easier to pull them out.

So, like recently, it's all hands to the weeds.

My tool of choice for digging them out is a three pronged thin fork with downward facing tines. It's easy to loosened up the soil around the weed in question and then grab it and pull it out. So I've been gradually working my way around the wood chip paths and goat paths between the beds digging out the errant growths. Mostly they're weeds, but on occasion I have found strawberry runners leaving their confines and trying to escape to adjacent beds. The definition of a weed is any plant that is growing in the wrong place. So out they come.

I've lost count of how many buckets were emptied. but there always seems to be more to do.

We're still getting courgettes. And Tomatoes. And we've now started to harvest the apples form the tree before they all fall on the floor. Of course we have to eat the apples by using a knife to cut them as they all have a maggot inside. There is only one thing worse than biting into an apple and finding a maggot inside.

And that's biting into an apple and finding half a maggot inside.