Rainy weather is the best for weeding. I don't know why, but when the soil is wet weeds just lift right out of the soil, root and all. We've been taking advantage of the afternoon rain storms to work on the evil brambles. They look like blackberries but they never produce fruit. Just thorns, lots of thorns. The brambles owned the bank along the driveway before we turned it into a flowerbed, and now they want it back.
The brambles have a woody root that runs about 3 inches underground, and sprouts up all along its length. It's impossible to dig out when the soil is dry. When it's wet you can sometimes pull several feet of it out in one go. Georg and I both had the experience of pulling on a root and seeing a bramble over a foot away disappear into the ground, then pop out attached to the root we were pulling. It's hilarious, like something out of a cartoon.
After weeding I planted seedlings which really should have been in the ground a couple of weeks ago. Snapdragons to replace the ones that died during the cold snap, calendulas and gazanias. The bunnies found and ate about half the calendula, along with every single parsley seedling. The rabbits! They eat my plants and then they get killed by Jane and make me cry. Damned nuisance.
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