Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Garlic Lovers Thread - Growing and Eating in the MAF, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
YEAH! Planted all my Garlic cloves today. Scratch that off my list!

Did other stuff s well--wore my back out digging up my raised bed.
I was being careful--NOT turning over the shovel-fulls. just digging straight in to cut up
some of the fine tree roots that have invaded this bed.
Well! it became a bigger job than planned--as usual.

Did not want to actually turn over the soil just now--but just cut up the roots--but after about half
the bed, it became imperative that I hand sift through each shovel-full to remove all these roots.
I am SOOOO upset--that the tree roots have invaded this bed. It has now become a "lost cause"
to what I had intended this bed to be.
It was obvious that there were serious breaches in my commercial, double layer of weed-block.
So--a new "YUK" bed is in its infancy!

Here are the pulled up roots I just threw out behind me as I was digging....
And--a closer pic of them--these are so tenacious....they go everywhere--and then become bigger roots.
It is impossible to keep up with this.....

--Pulled up roots on lawn next to the bed...
--Closer look at these "feeder roots"....