It had been over a week since I checked on the purple hull peas in the community garden, so I drove to town to see about them this morning. They are doing surprisingly well. The first plants that sprouted look great. The seedlings from the re-planting are coming up well.
There were unfamiliar weeds in the plot. This year, I moved cotton gin trash into my plot, having been assured that any chemicals from the cotton field had disappeared. Maybe so, but I suspect that the "new" weeds in my plot came from weed seeds from the cotton field. I pulled them all up and trashed them.
The plot next to mine is seriously unkempt. Bermuda grass is sneaking across the walkway. I cleared it away and also pulled up some of the nut grass and other weeds from the edge of their plot closest to mine. In the process, I uncovered cucumbers that are about to get too big. I sent the garden manager a text about the cucumbers needing to be picked, but I did not pick them.
I came home, did some weed-eating around the yard, and then mowed it. I am not happy with the new lawnmower blades. The Husband and I both thought the deck was a 42" deck, and I bought blades for that size deck. It turns out that our deck is 46". We did not think using the shorter blades would make a difference (except a 4" narrower cutting path), but it does. The mower left a skinny little line of uncut grass between the blades.
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