Manual weeding ⚔️🌿🌿🌿

Take at look, is that space not bushy?

It was very early in the morning, around 6 a.m. or thereabout. As you can see in the video, the weather was not bright even though the sun had already come out. The dew was still heavy in the air. I decided to clear off the weeds that had taken over the space—something I had been procrastinating on for a long time. That morning was the only suitable time for me because once I get into my daily work, I wouldn't have the chance or time to do that kind of task again.

Normally, to make the work easier for me, I should have used pesticides to clear the weeds. But I didn’t budget for that, and the task wasn’t supposed to be a big one for me, considering the fact that I’m used to farm work—even though it has been a long time since I did any strenuous farm activity.

I borrowed a cutlass from a neighbour to do the work. The cutlass wasn’t sharp, as they don’t use it for farm work. I think the cutlass is mainly kept for security reasons in their house. I believe so.

Some of the grasses were very strong and had matured firmly into the ground, but I didn’t have any issues with the blunt cutlass because all I needed was to use it to make a way while I used my hands to uproot the grass from the ground. That’s exactly what I did.

In the later part of the work, I didn’t see the need to use the cutlass again because the grasses were soft. So, I used my hands instead, applying force to pull them off. As you can see, the veins in my hand were all out, indicating that I wasn’t joking at all.

The work didn’t last up to 20 minutes before I was done. That day, I left the grasses on the ground to dry off, but later in the day, it rained, and the next day I had to pack up the grasses.

Oh, lest I forget, that space is my garden and I cleared that during the beginning of this planting season.

Thanks for reading.

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