Please, I beseech, implore and beg of you...enough dramatic synonyms for ya?...seriously this is important!
Do NOT do what I have done people... If you learn nothing else from this blog then remember these picture, let them be forever burned in the circuits of your brain for it could happen to you...
ACKKK!!! The weeds from hell in...
the strawberry beds! I have been a bad and neglectful gardener and now it is time to pay the piper...and he is going to exact some serious payback!
These are the demon thorns I must contend with...they are not only on the still standing weeds but have fallen off into and are hiding away in the soil to pierce and puncture and maim at any time in the future they see fit, ouch!
These are the burrs that are on my boots, in my boots, on my pants, in my pants...yikes! Had them in my hair, baby boy had them in his hair. I even had to pick them off my camera strap! I shudder to think how many of these darn seeds will germinate in the strawberry beds next year.
Here is the newly weeded bed. I know that letting all those weeds go to seed was really stupid on my part. After strawberry season I just got busy with other things...you know like husband, kids, animals, house, church, little things like that...and didn't get around to it. I think I will have to pull up all the strawberry plants early next spring, put down black plastic then replant them. That's the only way that I will be able to keep the baby weeds from taking over~~sigh~~I sooo know better than this!
Notice the bed next door? You see it, the one with the huge white arrow pointing to it? Sorry didn't mean to scare you! There are 4 more beds that look that bad...hanging my head now and shuffling off to weed.
BTW...if you ever need a good reason to own a camel one is that they just kind of hang around waiting for weeds to be tossed over the fence, kinda like a dog hanging around the table waiting for scraps. If you ever need a reason not to own a camel I've got a bushel full of those too, lol!
