[Pollard]

Working on the high tunnel turned into an up close personal battle with thistle. One of the bigger ones is in between my kneeling pad and chair.

I didn't want to tread all over thistle down the middle of the tunnel area so I'm weeding and surrounding the enemy from all sides.

I know this horse thistle well enough now that I also found that the first year's growth has no thorns and looks kinda nice. They also pull out with the full root intact which is good.

Screw that poison. Pulled a lot of stuff that can go to the compost pile that I inadvertently started this morning while weeding the LFYG. I needed to do something with the holes leftover from moving the comfrey anyway.

[Pollard]

Pulled a lot of stuff that can go to the compost pile that I inadvertently started this morning while weeding the LFYG. I needed to do something with the holes leftover from moving the comfrey anyway. - so I'm building the compost pile over the holes. (would help if I finished my sentence) Don't have to fill the holes and maybe it will be a good connection to microbes.