weed patrol

larry@stinescorner

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it stopped raining,so went on weed patrol duty and scratch around/This is my weapon of choice
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It works well and not too hard to push it back and fourth
 
I like to do weekly weed patrol with 24D and Rye. I fill the walk around sprayer with the 24D and fill myself with the rye. I find that I see twice as many weeds when liquored up.
 

I've been fighting mares tail and deer tongue grass all summer on about 4 acres(don't laugh too hard). Spot spraying with a 4 gallon solo and I've got it going my way now finally. Glyphosphate for the deer tongue grass and crossbow for the mares tail. Bush hogging in the spring took care of the sedge.

The other field got crossbow for the briar and multiflora and the multiflora is gone now. I expect to see some try again next spring, but crossbow nails it straight away. That one is in pretty decent shape now weed wise.

Its at my mothers place and the field had been sadly neglected for quite a while. I go up once a week and see where to start again and put out another 4 gallons, some days I put out 8 if I have time between mowing and other chores that need doing.

It don't do my old busted up hip any good, but its one of those things that has to be done. And if its going to get done, that means me. So I do it and hurt later.
 
I have seen that tool before but have never used one. It looks downright handy.

During the past few dry days we have had I have been on my hands and knees pulling weeds out of the garden and giving them a fling out into the gravel driveway. The weeds got away from me this summer. When the garden was dry enough to weed I had to be be in the field. When the fields were too wet, which has been more often than not, the garden is too wet. (Sigh) I have only two more rows to do, then I’m caught up. Marilyn has been in the garden with her arm in a sling picking peas and beans and pulling weeds too. She’s quite a trooper.
 
This tool became the "Hula hoe". The big difference is the hula hoe blade floated back and forth to keep the same cut angle
pushing or pulling. I don't have one now, manual tools are not my forte.
 

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