Timing and gardening

One old saying about farming is " the footsteps of the farmer are the best manure".  The meaning is observation of the growing crops and intercession where necessary is probably the single most important thing a grower can do.  I do a short walkabout the garden each evening and adjust my schedule depending on what I see.  Last night that meant spending 45 minutes on hands and knees pulling hundreds of galinsoga seedlings which were rapidly overtaking the carrot plants in the bed.  It would have been much less painful to weed the winter squash or water some transplants, but by Saturday it would have been an exercise in futility to try weeding the carrots.  Choices in gardening as well as life have consequences and delaying or ignoring them usually leads to disaster.