Christina Websell wrote:
My sister in law. My brother told her to go down to the allotment with me
and hoe. She hoed up some of the paths. Bad idea.

Recoverable, though.

She has no clue what the difference is between a weed and what we have
planted that is coming up.

I once pulled up all of the fresias I'd planted the week before.

So we did training today. You see those little grass-like thingies? they
are the spring onions coming up. The little red ones are beetroot.
a weed almost got away because it was red. Not a beetroot.

I am very haphazard with my planting, but for things like this you may find
it's useful to run a planting line with twine, string or thread of some kind
and /leave/ it there so that it's a good hint that if things along that line
that all look the same may not be weeds.

It's not easy having the children there either. They sulk if they cannot
do exactly what they want, there was almost a fight today about who would
water the potatoes and having a 7 y o in charge of the hose is not a good
thing.

Heh. Benjamin likes making bogs. And calling it concrete. And dig holes
and say he's going to dig to New Zealand.