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Ah - I don't think I phrased my question very well. I wasn't asking
about the amount of effort you put in, but more about the amount of
weeds.

Yes, weeding for three hours solid is a lot, whatever the weather. But
having enough weeds for it to take three hours if I were to get them all
out isn't, for my garden, a lot. My laughingly named "vegetable garden"
is a tiny fraction of an allotment in size, but I'd expect a good
afternoon's weeding just to get that small space clear.

So I was wondering whether going to the allotment and finding there was
3 hours worth of weeds was a lot, because normally you'd only expect
half an hours worth of weeds.

Yes, I thought it was a lot. I expected maybe an hour.
The thing is we've reclaimed it from my goat paddock and every weed in the
world is trying to establish itself in the bare soil now and they are very
successful.
Spurge is the worst, it gets a foot high in no time. Also mallow.

I spent about 5 hours on Sunday, and did only about 2/3 of the area
(and most of that fairly roughly). But I had let it get a little
overgrown. I find that lawn grass is the worst, followed by hairy
bittercress, though the bulk of my weeds were chickweed, spurges
and shepherd' purse.


Although I find it a pain in the a*** to have to weed, I am interested about
what weeds are there. I have a lot of Fool's Parsley. Evening primrose has
appeared. Opium poppies too.
Something that looks like a potato when it comes up, one of the nightshades.
Spurge is the worst thing on my veg patch. It's not like the small type I
have in my garden, it gets to 2 foot high and branching.
It was a bad moment when I pulled up the poppies to give my onions more room
:-(