To weed or not to weed...

...that is the question. Do we expend hours and hours of precious energy hand weeding each bed of a 700 X 300 foot garden to give the little plants every fighting chance---or---will it end up as a grasshopper wipeout like it did for Mona last year? She said the day after they weeded the carrots, they were gone. The grasshoppers needed food and since there were no weeds to munch on they moved on to the carrots. Not a good thing to see after spending money, time, and hard work on something. The weeds are getting absolutely out of control though...so do we 'selectively' weed?? Not weed at all?? Weed it all and hope that the grasshoppers leave our plants alone?

Hmmmm....the dilemmas of working in grasshopper country.

The little buggers are all over the place to the point that it sounds like a rainstorm when you walk through the field...they're jumping everywhere and just looking for crops to destroy...

The turkeys, guinea hens, and chickens are doing a pretty good job at controlling the areas where they are, but there are only a few of them and thousands upon thousands of the little hoppers...not a very fair fight. We still haven't been able to get them across the creek to the big garden because of the creek being so high still but we did get the poultry fencing up today so that once the creek does go down we'll be able to haul the coop and the guineas over.

Ok, that's all for my grasshopper rant for the moment...

Oh, and it's really hot...