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Got into the garden today. The soil was just barely dry enough to work in. (Heavy clay, been raining for two fucking weeks for the first time ever [in my memory] in Utah)
I have a stirrup hoe, but I think I'm using it incorrectly, because I'm pulling a fuckload of dirt out with the weeds and possibly fucking up my grade. I'm basically unintentionally tilling the top 3-4 inches. The edges are the only places I plant into (square foot/intensive gardening), so it might not be so bad.
Is the trick to using hoes to just skim the surface?
Feel free to identify the weeds you see in here and tell me if I'm retarded for trying to get them before they go to seed. I know I have common mallow everywhere closer to the surface, but that is the only one I can easily identify.
With that in mind, as well, this is a lot of material that would go to waste in a dumpster. Does anyone have any good ideas for spring sources of brown material for composting?
