The Amazing Weedless Garden

If you have a garden you know about the annual weed-war, and the fact that you can never win.

Usually, this time of year, we are fighting the good fight, knowing that it's only a matter of time before no amount of weed-pulling and hoeing will put you out in front of this.

We don't use herbicides, so weed-control is purely a physical thing. Tilling between the rows helps, but the grass and nettles pop up down the middles and you just can't keep up. So you give in, and know that the garden will just look a little wild...too bad.

But, this year, we have the amazing weedless garden. We wish we did not. This is a picture of almost no rain since March.


Imagine pulling hoses through the field, setting up the sprinkler, moving it every couple of hours, and wondering how long until you have to pump the pond onto the field in order to keep things going. We're really close to that at this point. And the plants are big enough to suck up the water from in between the rows. Only the watermelons have buried hoses. Nothing else does. .. and here is the garden at 6:30 a.m., when it is a pleasure to be out there-it is cool and quiet.