The Sage was right

Some time ago decided that the weeds on the ditch adjacent to my plot were compteing with my vines. I dug my petrol strimmer out of the garage and took ten minutes to make sure it was working. The engine yielded to my tender care and started up. After a few minutes it was running properly. I picked up the trailer then went to the lottie. First job was to strim the banks of the ditch. I set off with a will but it was hard going. When the strimmer nylon came in contact with the rabbit fencing it just destroyed itself. Then it took a couple of minutes to reset the nylon. Then, of course, it ran out of petrol. Next a few minutes refilling it and trying to restart it. The strimmer does not like starting when it is hot. It gave in and started so I could finish the job. The strimmer makes a very good job of chopping up the vegetation. I just have to keep on top of it now. Chopping back the weeds showed up the holes under netting where the furry varmints were getting in. I will have to do something about that but I am not sure what.

As Sagely Steve predicted we did have a frost in the week. It put paid to most of my Marigolds and some of the spuds a got a light singeing. I replaced the dead Marigolds with Dahlia's plantlets. The onion patch in Bed1 is being buried under Chickweed. Conscience got the better of me a decide it was time to weed the Onions. It is a painful job. I managed to rake off the worst of the over burden but no matter what I tried I could not get at the weeds growing near the Onions. There was nothing for it but to get down on my hands and knees with the Swan-necked onion hoe and carefully weed round each bulb. Some people like this kind of weeding but not me. 40 minutes of toil cleared the patch without too many losses to the keen edge of the hoe. The middle portion of Bed1 is waiting for plantlets or sowing however the Chickweed is no respecter of allotmenteers plans. The weeds was more robust than in amongst the Onions. An hour of hoeing and raking cleared the area. Between the two areas I weeded I got two very full wheelbarrows of weeds. They fed the compost bin. I was wrecked so took myself home for lunch.
I had a quick bite, a brew and sit down then took the trailer back to the stables. after that I went over the apiary.