Spring Weeding

 

"Nothing is so beautiful as spring--

When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush..."

--Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

 And for the gardener, nothing is quite so beautiful as grabbing hold of those stubborn weeds that have taunted you for the past 6 months, and with one gentle tug, pulling them out root and all.

 

 This is a picture of satisfaction, right here.

Oh yes.

 

You know it has been a long winter when a morning spent pulling up dead weeds makes you feel glad to be alive.

 

Snow was all melted from last weekend; we were in mud boots and sweatshirts.

It was glorious!

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

5 minutes of spring weeding is worth 2 hours of summer weeding.

 

Hands down.