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Is everything worth doing,

worth doing well?

Among the "surprises" of my mediterranean gardening is how to get rid of all the roots from the soil in preparation for new spring planting, the roots of my last year crop and the roots of all the uninvited plants sneaking into my vegetable bed. Up there, north, in continental gardening I would work the soil in late fall, turn those roots to surface and they will vanish in winter cold. Not here. The roots, it looks, even like to be aired by turning soil, and they prosper during winter.

The insert on the photo on the right shows a bucket full of roots extracted from some 20 sq.ft. of a single vegetable bed. By a reasonable estimate, I took out 70 to 80% of them. They are fine strings and it took me hours to extract them. Crazy. When enough is enough?

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