{"id":798,"date":"2009-07-21T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2009\/07\/victory-over-weeds.html"},"modified":"2019-06-24T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:11:07","slug":"victory-over-weeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2009\/07\/victory-over-weeds.html","title":{"rendered":"Victory Over Weeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/gardenmiddle1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360895396247078914\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/gardenmiddle1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Crabgrass is evil. It invaded my flower garden. I have never seen such an invasion. Yes, I was behind in my weeding &#8211; but this was ridiculous!<\/p>\n<p>It grew on the pathways. It&#8217;s overtaken the flower beds. It springs up overnight. It is growing among the gravel in the driveway, along the rocks lining the beds. It grows everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>There are more weeds. Nature provides great variety.<\/p>\n<p>Weeds with big thorns. Vining weeds with little thorns. Weeds that gave me a rash all over my arms and made me itch all over (and no, it&#8217;s not poison ivy. Poison ivy doesn&#8217;t make me itch. This was something else.)<a href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/julygarden3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360893669524003506\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 189px;\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/julygarden3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Julygarden.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360893668167361106\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 192px;\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Julygarden.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I managed to lean across my creeping juniper and gave myself a wicked juniper rash. I looked like someone had rolled me in mud, then rubbed red paint on my arms with some white dots in between. That was after Saturday&#8217;s weeding session and after the lovely rash broke out on my arms.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t want to know what I looked like after Sunday&#8217;s epic battle continued.<\/p>\n<p>I spent six hours weeding on Saturday, four hours weeding on Sunday, and two days later I am still so sore I can barely move. I dug up weeds. I pulled them out by hand. John used a pick axe on sections where they grew in such a mat I couldn&#8217;t make progress.<\/p>\n<p>We are about halfway finished. Yesterday, torrential rains and thunderstorms all day kept us inside. Today dawned bright and clear but more thunderstorms are predicted.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/gardenjuly1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360893674825253026\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 192px;\" src=\"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/gardenjuly1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWeeds, you are warned: your hours are numbered.<\/p>\n<p>I took photos this morning to mark our progress. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>I am working safely at my desk until tonight when I am back in the garden&#8230;weeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crabgrass is evil. It invaded my flower garden. I have never seen such an invasion. Yes, I was behind in my weeding &#8211; but this was ridiculous! It grew on the pathways. It&#8217;s overtaken the flower beds. It springs up overnight. 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