I got some pictures of the veggie garden today. I'm expecting company from Washington tomorrow so I doubt I will get the pics posted until some time Monday. Right now I should be cleaning up Gypsy's (10 YO) bedroom for a guest room, but decided to take a break after finding half a cookie under her pillow. Phooey!
I got my leftover-from-last-year garlic cloves planted as well as my three varieties of tiny garlic bulblets transplanted into the garden. My muncher cukes are up and in need of a bit of thinning before they start climbing. I must have left the gate open as I saw a few chicken tracks in the beds, but this time there seems to be little to no damage.
With all the rain we've had recently, the weeds have been having a field day! My BFF was complaining about how far behind she was getting with weeding her garden. "I bet your garden is all weedy too," she mused.
"Nope!" says I, "You would have to look long and hard to see anything bigger than a one day old weed." With those wonderful raised beds, it is so easy to keep the beds weeded, especially between or right after rain showers. Now the flower beds are another story entirely.
I spent most of Friday working on the semi-shade end of my shade garden. DH was impressed with how much I did get done, but just that one bed will take another 3-4 days to get to the point where the individual plants can be seen -- and that's a long way from weed-free. I think I once counted just under 30 individual flower beds tucked here and there on the property. A few of those have been kept cleaned or were already weeded this spring, but the majority are shamefully neglected. Yup! I see lots of work in my future.
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. Additionally, I've saved some space in the garden so that dirt is calling for me and that seed!
