A Good Weeding Around Spinach Plants

As any gardener will tell you weeding is one of the most important and time consuming tasks that a gardener has to take.  Once you get the hang of weeding properly it becomes so much easier and it will not take that much time.

Unfortunately this is something that has to be done from time to time even if you have placed a layer of thick mulch or black plastic to prevent weeds from growing.  Weeds will literally grow anywhere.That is basically all I did today was weed around my spinach plants and also my onions.  I didn’t have time to weed the onions in totes and instead I weeded the ones in the ground and laid down a thick layer of mulch using grass clippings.

Since there has not been much rain I didn’t have as much grass clippings as I would normally have.  I had to really stretch out the mulch that I did have to place around the onions.

Here is what it looked like after weeding them.

I will probably start weeding the onions in totes sometime tomorrow and the rest of the spinach that I didn’t get to as well.  It shouldn’t take that long because I did the bulk of it this evening and the rest is very simple.

Right now I am looking forward to start adding plants into the garden and get the ball rolling.  I hope to start planting them sometime this week once I get set up and begin digging holes into the garden.