Ending and Beginning

So I was out in the garden today, trying to stay ahead of the quack grass, digging it up with a small shovel and a spading fork. There’s still a lot of quack grass out there.

Then, I got to a place I had covered with corrugated cardboard and wood chips last summer in an effort to kill the grass. There were a few blades of grass showing through, so I dug into the cardboard. And underneath it, there is a heavy mat of thick, strong quack grass roots.

It gives me the creeps to even think of if, and I take back everything I’ve written about the quack grass problem not being too bad this year. It’s going to be another long, hard struggle.

What about some kind of frame with chicken wire through which you could sift topsoil? I wonder if that would be a way to get those roots out.

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