Weeding

Spent two hours outside weeding the first set of rows of carrots, broccoli, and onions. It went pretty smoothly as the weeds are still just seedlings. I pretty much just wiped them away with my gloves, and it pulled the roots out, too. I also weeded the area where I planted different kinds of lettuce and spinach, affectionately known as the “salad bar.” I also weeded the first strawberry patch where we planted the first 40 strawberry plants. We put shiny 4^th of July pinwheels in the strawberry patch that we purchased for 90 cents at a local store, and it has kept the birds out of the entire garden. They don’t like the sound they make or the flashy-ness of them, either. And because it’s pretty much always windy here, they are always moving. Genius!