More maintenance

It has been 1.5 weeks since our last day of work at the garden (I tilled between the rows and put down a lot of shredded leaves then). Consequently, the weeds have grown quite a bit--faster than the plants, in most cases.

I was able to weed the two rows of okra and the one row of fennel. We have 15 sprouted fennel plants. The first row of pre-weeded okra is the row on the left of this image (the full row that comes from the bottom-left corner):

Weeding three rows (one seventh of the 21 rows I have) took me an hour, so weeding the rest of the garden will take six hours. Maybe we can do it together (E & J) and find some shortcuts (for example, use a hoe (novel idea)).

The tomato plants are looking very nice. The pepper plants are a mixed lot--some are OK and some are still small. The leeks look great, but need weeding. The pumpkins are OK--I think that we have one gigantic pumpkin plant left, but the other (small) pumpkins are coming up nicely.

Lots of work to do. Yay!

Update from the evening: I was able to weed ALL of the tomatoes and most of the peppers with a hoe. And I mowed.