Weeds

I spent about 6 hours today in the garden.  It drizzled on and off this morning, but the ground was moist and perfect for weeding.  Not my favorite garden chore...I usually do a variety of things to avoid weeding, including laying down mulch, covering the tomato beds with black fabric, and planting crops so densely that the weeds don't see daylight.  Despite all that, wild flora will not be denied.  It grows, no matter what I do.  So I must rip them out.  Yes, rip them out.  Now that I use the seedbed method, the soil is not compacted, so for me, the most time-effective and satisfying weeding method is to rip them out with my bare hands.

I weeded 2 seedbeds, which amounts to 1/6 of the garden.  Here's the harvest:

After weeding, I planted a couple kinds of lettuce, radish, spinach, arugula, and Chinese cabbage.  We should have two months left before the first frost, so all those things will be harvest-able before then.  Assuming the frost is reading the same almanac that I am.