Theraputic Weeding

There is nothing better than pulling up weeds.

Joyfully I have been prepping my garden plot for this year's planting, and I've come to realize I love weeding perhaps more than I love planting.

Planting seeds and seedlings, nurturing them for weeks and months, fretting about frost, rain (not enough or too much), bugs ... it's such work!

But weeding .... in half an hour - often less - you can clear great swathes of stray grasses, pull up false carrots, giant albino tap root and all. Such satisfaction! Clover - gone. Crazy, spreading mint plant - gone. Out of control chives - gone. Mystery weed - gone.

Gone, gone gone.

The results: beautiful velvety brown soil, freshly turned and raked just waiting to nurture tomatoes and bell peppers and the ubiquitous zucchini (and this year: Armenian cucumbers).

I think I may need to take a break, though. Yesterday I thought I recognized an earthworm from an earlier weeding session. I may be spending a little too much time in the dirt.