Spontaneous Weeding...

[thistlebloom]

So yesterday I just spontaneously combusted... haha, no not really, I just spontaneously tore out my mint/thyme/lemon balm bed. I was just walking by and it sucked me in!
I bent to pull some of the oxalis that keeps spreading. So much of it was mixed in with the thyme I decided that needed to go too. My husband fetched the tractor and trailer for me since I was developing quite a pile of debris behind me.

That bed looked so clean after pulling all the weed infested ground cover that I decided to go after the everything else bed by the front door. Much better now!

I know the mint and lemon balm will be back, but for now at least the weeds are gone and the grasshoppers don't have anything to hide in.

Should have taken a before picture, but here's a few durings and afters.



That trellis in the above picture has my Sweet Summer Love clem trying to grow on it. This is the second year in a row that the hoppers have defoliated it.



^ Gratuitous dog pic. They're making sure the trailer doesn't take off without them.

After. Much cleaner, makes me feel less claustrophobic or something.


And since we're here, we'll just look around a little.




The Casa Blanca lilies that have such a wonderful fragrance. I'm sitting right next to them as I type this and they are delightful. The bees are working the Joe Pye eupatorium on the other side of me and the hummers are buzzing around chasing each other. I felt the air from their wings right next to my head a moment ago as they whizzed by.

@journey11 , remember those hollyhock seeds you sent me a few years ago? I planted them and they didn't germinate. I blame myself. But for some reason this one came up last year and has been blooming! I'm definitely saving the seed and replanting all along the fence.

 

[digitS']

Very, very nice, Thistle'!

It's nice to have some of your mints back, sometime.

DW has a kind of sedum she thinks is somehow special - unrealistically tiny! The oxalis in there is nearly impossible to get out. The sedum is in two beds. Seems like if it is a "ground cover," it should successfully outcompete the weeds. But, no ...

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

Very nice yard Got to love black eye Susans nothing bothers them and they just flower away

 

[majorcatfish]

could just sit there an take a nap and listen to the woods, of course the moped is still not fixed sorry... so maybe next year i can help with the weeding.............

 

[Smart Red]

Beautiful, thistle!

It looks as if you have two garden rooms right there. I'm guessing the major should get a side car so I can go along. Mrs. major behind him on the moped of course.

Daughter has been talking about sending their moped this way. Perhaps, I'll just ride my own and tag along with you major. Iff'n you're going I'm not out of the way. Swing by here.

 

[ninnymary]

I love the look of that clean, hosed down bed. It looks so neat and orderly. Peaceful too!

Mary

 

[journey11]

I'm not sure, but I probably should have frozen them first in case there were any weevils. I've found them in there since. The ones that fall right on the ground usually send up quite a few volunteers. That shade of burgandy just may be one. They usually don't bloom until the second year.