A RAINY DAY IN BOSQUE FARMS

Bosque Farms. With a weed, the trick is to uproot it while the fertile sandy loam soil is wet and soft. You’re going to get muddy, but there is no choice if you want to save your veggies without prior service from your tiller! Uprooting by hand is impossible when it’s dry. The plants break off at the ground, leaving all those roots to produce several tops instead of just one. You’d be just making more work for yourself. After the rain is a good time to pull weeds. Most will ask, “Why get rid of one weed at a time when you can till them? Why stop at a new rototiller? Get a tractor!” I say life is too short to sit around on a seat while the machine works! However, we do need a new rototiller pronto. I get to walk a little when I’m using my tiller. Exercise promotes good health. Sitting and letting someone or something else do all the work requires separate periods of heavy exercise to keep the body healthy. So as for me at 63, I join the poor and wise in thanking the Great Power for the rain as well as the opportunity to stay fit pulling weeds down on our farm south of Albuquerque..