I finished cleaning up the chives and garlic chives. Growing them in containers helps a lot, but once grasses get in there, it's a job for sure.
Here is the tool I bought. I want to call it "Klingon Toothpick" but Star Trek might not like that. I'll just call it "That weeding tool".
This was the best tool I've ever used for close-in weeding of tough weeds. It's difficult getting close to the chive plants without harming them. This helped a lot.
The garlic chives are about 20 years old. They have been through multiple transplanting and dividing. I let them bloom last year, which stresses them. The plants I grew last year from seeds are growing better than these. A rejuvenation usually get them going again.
The regular chives are from I clump I started ten years ago. I've divided and rejuvenated them a few times. They usually like that, it's kind of a chive spa treatment. Next time, they'll will need a good dividing again.
I did other chores-
Planted two six-packs of sweetpea seedlings I started a few weeks ago.
Planted the remaining half dozen Echinacea, a half dozen Rudbeckias, a few Coreopsis in the wildflower garden.
Planted a row onions that I had started in Jan, "New York Early".
Moved a daylily clump so I could plant that climbing rose there.
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