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| Weather-vane atop Pennypack Farm Harvest House |
With temperatures in the mid-70s, low humidity, and clear skies, we decided that Saturday (August 24) would be a perfect opportunity to fulfill our obligation for the year.
When we arrived, the farmer asked us to join a group weeding the completely (hopelessly?) overgrown strawberry beds. Weeds and grasses had grown up so intimately with the strawberry plants that uprooting the weeds often uprooted the strawberries as well, but we did the best we could.
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| Weeding strawberries; Kali seated on bucket |
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| Kids helped out, mostly by filling the wheelbarrow with uprooted weeds |
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| Weeding cabbages and broccoli |
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| A ladder set aside struck Kali's fancy |
4 comments:
Interesting post as always, Scott. I know a lot about weeding. When my brother and I were kids we had to weed the huge garden my Italian grandparents had in our backyard--I should say the huge garden that WAS our backyard. We had every vegetable and fruit (including strawberries) that you can imagine. My Italian uncle and aunt lived right next door, and my uncle had two fig trees that he would bury before winter, digging large trenches in which to lay the trees down; he'd dig them up again in early spring. My brother and I had to help with that chore, too.
The weather sounds perfect for such an outing. Lovely day for weeding and doing your share duty.
I had an uncle who lived about 3 miles from me who had an impressively huge garden every year; fortunately, he had four kids who could help him out with the weeding, etc. My father always had a garden on our postage stamp of a suburban lot, but it was immaculate and I would help him with the work when I was younger.
I've heard of people protecting their fig trees, but I'd never hear of burying them. I suppose in northeast Ohio's winters, the trees really couldn't be sufficiently protected above ground. Makes sense, but it sure seems like a lot of work. In the Italian neighborhoods of South Philly there are a lot of fig trees, but our climate is much milder than Youngstown's, so they can get away with just covering them and protecting them from frost most years--especially in the heat island of the city.
Robin Andrea; It WAS a perfect day to complete our share duty. And, yesterday (Sunday) was almost a carbon copy, so Kali and I completed a 5-mile hike at Valley Forge National Historical Park.
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