Time to Build Up my Readership….with More “Before and After” Weeding photos!

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Even though I am “over” the “flu, I am still dragging my ass around and sleeping inordinately and feeling queasy and energy-less. But everytime I get sick, I learn and relearn and RELEARN AND RELEARN this lesson: The World Did Not Come to An End When I Fell Behind In My Work/Chores.

And once you get to feeling better, the temptation is ENORMOUS to start stressing about Time Pressure even MORE than you did BEFORE you got sick, because NOW you are THREE WEEKS BEHIND !!!!!  ELEVENTY-ONE !!! But I swear to almighty GOD, THIS TIME I am going to LEARN the LESSON, that freaking out about time pressure and chores is Not Indictated. The thing to learn is to Relax and Do your Work and Enjoy It and Chill Out about time pressure and Try to Enjoy your life while you are Living It,  instead of feeling stressed all the time. Even when it comes to the Garden, what is the WORST thing that could happen if I didn’t get things planted in time? I would have to buy vegetables at the Farmer’s Market. Big Deal!

First thing after rising from my sofa, I weeded the beds I had already planted. And now…..(drum roll)……the before and after Weeding Photos!!

Broccoli Bed : BEFORE

Broccoli AFTER also MULCHED

Cabbage Bed : BEFORE

Cabbage Bed: AFTER also MULCHED!

The Cilantro Bed (or, as I really Should call it, the Nutgrass Bed) BEFORE!

The Cilantro Bed: AFTER

OMG Kathy! Did You Get Your Tiny Cabbages Planted before The Almost Certain Rain Tomorrow?!?!?!?

Enormous Grub Poops in my Hand.

Of course I did. But first, a gratuitous photo of a gigantic Grub crapping in my hand!

Then, let us join hands in prayerful expectation of RAIN, which there is an 80% chance of tomorrow, and even as I TYPE THIS, my radar shows a line of violent thunderstorms drifting in an Austinly direction! I may be wakening to the sound of thunder at 4 AM.

After a day like today, where I did a million things IN ADDITION to a Herculean Gardening Chore, I feel too tired to do much ‘splaining. Let us proceed DIRECTLY to the DOCUMENTATION:

Where is the Bed? I can't see it for all the weeds....oh, THERE it is, inside the barely visible brick outline

For Contrast, here you see on the left, a FINISHED BED, next to THE WEEDY BED that we will be working on today

Now, a photo of the bed, weeded:

I Have Weeded It

I found a few surviving beets and onions, that lived through the merciless heat and drought in the shade of the native weed-cover.

What a Fine White Onion, a SURVIVOR!

What a fine onion! I left him there to delight in the cooler temperatures and rain of Autumn

Now, a photo of the bed with three piles of screened compost:

This is just about the L*A*S*T of my homemade compost! Things are not breaking down very quickly in the DROUGHT

PLANTED!

All Planted! THis bed's new name shall be THE CABBAGE BED

Cauliflower in the back, then cabbages, then a row of “recovered” onions that I found, still alive, under the shade of the weeds, then Beets. Tomorrow, I will do a little post on BEETS, like my CARROTS: THE PLANTING post.