GA: Weeding almost finished!

The GA plot I had last year on a temporary basis is unavailable to me this year as its normal gardener is returning.  So, I have a new plot this year.

The bad news -- it's full of weeds* from seemingly having been abandoned last year.  *I don't like the word "weed" but for simplicity will use it.

The great news -- it's mine!!!  And I can keep it again in future if I want to!  Wahoo!!!!!

I desperately wanted to get a head start on removing the weeds, especially before the tiller comes along and plants all those thousands of seeds that have been sitting ever so conveniently on the surface.  So, I got going earlier this week.  Fortunately, the vast majority of the weed coverage was some type of grass whose seed heads were really conveniently lying on top and were easily removed without shattering seeds all over everywhere.  And the roots of those grasses came out super easily by hand.  So, an evening and a half took care of removing all of this.

Then today I started the next step:  Digging out the other types of grass or vegetation.  This consisted of the following, which I finished for about 1/3rd to almost half of the plot -- will do the rest of the plot soon:

- Easily pulled little tufts of green grass with short roots.

- Harder to pull type of grass with long runners underground (mostly just along some of the western edge).

- Woody twigs sticking up throughout that look like tree seeds from last year.

- Miscellaneous other little green things.

As part of this, I found the following:

- A nest of small ants along the south edge.

- Several cutworm-looking / other grubby things -- two near the west/middle edge; others can't remember where.

I also moved over a bunch of the leftover straw from last year's garden and spread it out in the south part of the plot.