Off with their Heads!

As the season progressed, the weeds in the unweeded sections of the study started to loom over me.  The weeds were well over 5 feet tall and ready to seed.

As a favor to the farmer who lent me the spot and also to minimize shading of the onions in adjacent rows, I decided to take matters into my own hands and to "top" the most egregious of weeds in the sections that were not weeded...this was no small feat, as some of the weeds (especially the pigweed and lambsquarters) had formed lignified stems of at least 1/2 inch in diameter and the process took over 4 hours for all four rows, and over 230 lbs of tops, alone!

Weeds standing tall--the bucket next to them is 22 inches tall