Weeding

Now, I know that I said that planting day was difficult to anticipate, but that was a large understatement in comparison to how much I dreaded the thought of weeding our massive garden. When Garrett mentioned that it was time to go out and weed the garden, I was prepping myself both mentally and physically for the draining process that it would be. The thought of crawling around on my hands and knees picking out the weeds definitely did not sound appealing. But I'm here to tell you - it wasn't that bad.

Call me crazy, tell me it was because I had low expectations, or even that the weeds weren't bad enough yet, but my overall response to the experience was that it could have been a lot worse. Come to find out, I didn't have to crawl around on my hands and knees to get all of the weeds. I honestly had no idea that a gardening hoe was a sufficient tool for weeding. Which probably goes to show just how oblivious I am about this whole gardening thing, but oh well.

We went out to the garden and weeded for about an hour, and even though I got two blisters in that small amount of time, we got a lot done. Granted, we didn't finish because I had to go to work, but I felt a lot better knowing that the next time I went out there I wouldn't be so scared.

Just a quick picture of some corn growing with weeds around it. Can you tell which is which?

In other news, we have some peppers growing already! I know, that would be fast had we planted them from seeds, but we were advised to plant the peppers and tomatoes as "starter plants" because they can be difficult to tend and grow from seeds. Regardless of this slightly cheater step, I'm proud of our small peppers that are starting!

And yes, those peppers are on two separate plants, so I'm allowed to refer to them as plural - peppers!