Thursday, June 23, 2011

Thankful Thursday

Today I am so thankful for a weeded garden!  When we returned from our trip and I took a look over the garden fence, this is what I saw…

Pretty pathetic.  So many weeds I could not even make out some of the plants.  We had some young men stay at our house while we gone and they watered and mowed (and kept Gypsy company).  The grass and flowers looked great. When we left there wasn’t much going on in the garden.  But it got real busy while we were gone, especially the weeds!  Next year if I am gone in early spring, it will be worth paying the guys to also weed the garden!

I spent a few hours every morning last week weeding.  I felt I was getting nowhere, fast.  By the time I got one area looking good and moved on, more weeds came back.  Yesterday morning before he went to work, Wally went out to the garden to help me.  He works much faster and is much stronger.  Just spending an hour out there together, I feel I have my garden back.

 

So much better don’t you think?  It even looks like a garden!  I keep walking back there just to have look!   And I cut the first of my lettuce and spinach! 

3 comments:

Debbie said...

Nice garden! What all did you plant this year? We only have a few tomato plants out so I'm going to try & go to the farmer's market more this summer.

Sherry said...

I have lettuce and spinach, and lots of it! I also have tomatoes and are hoping to get some this year...I think I have not ever harvested any. Give me your advice! Also green beans, peppers, squash, tomatillas, carrots. We'll see how grows, I mean goes!

Debbie said...

The ground where we are isn't very good for growing much of anything. The tomato plants are actually in the small flower garden area by our back patio. It was hard to grow flowers there (I tried just about everything) so a couple years ago we planted tomatoes & they've done quite well. Wish I could give you advice, but I usually kill whatever I plant :-) Hope everything is growing nicely in your garden!!

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