Well the late season vegetable garden has had its first harvest a few weeks ago and has had a ton of weeds in between when I started the garden and now. The last of the weeds I mostly removed over the past weekend. The weeds sprang up very thick and plentiful due to me using compost from local horse stables last year which of course had seeds that had not been sterilized in the compost. The seedlings produce what looks like crab grass but I think it’s called “quack grass”. They spread further from my rototilling.
This quack grass spreads like a small carpet once it gets in the soil. The good thing about this quack grass is that once you pull it up by the roots it never grows in that area again. I tested that a few weeks ago when I pulled up about 4 x 33 gallon yard bags of the grass up and the places I pulled up the grass it never grew again. I then waited until the patches left grew to a size where I could pull them up as well by the roots. At first I was going to put down some weed block to kill them off but that would have ruined my flexibility with planting more seedlings and plants later in the season as I like.
I planted some more hot peppers, basil and some bell peppers. The plants I planted already are producing jalapeno peppers, tomatoes (early bird & yellow pear), egg plants and the cucumber vines are running and cucumbers are sprouting all over the place.
Here is my first small harvest a few weeks ago:
Here is the out of control weeds:
Here is what it looks like after the weed extraction process this past weekend:
Some veggies showing promise:
