gardenbre 2: 2 Weeks & Lots of WEEDS!!!

... the three foot center path I cut back to two
this year that's now 6" ... the width of a shoe!

On the Parkdale Hort day trip with Barry (Saturday
27 June) I got a new lavender plant that I just put
inbetween the hoses on the path (see far flowering
one) take THAT you damn dead one ... now there are
TWO (that's what YOU get when you die) just because
I didn't know I wasn't supposed to cut you back in
the fall - I'm sure Julie told me I was supposed to
... yeah blame it all on Julie surely it's all her fault!

For the past two weeks it's either been raining non-stop or I've
been working on projects demanding immediate attention. This
is to prepare you for what greeted me yesterday at the allotment.

Lots of Weeds but the garden is THRIVING. I really must eat something from it though very soon or I'm going to have to start to question my sanity at doing all this work planting an edible garden! Last year I ate everything ... maybe a little too much of everything (lambsleaves, dandylion leaves and dandylion flowers, thistle this and thistle that, etc) and this year I've just been working my butt off trying to get things in the allotment and on the roof and kept alive so the thought of eating it hasn't really entered into the picture yet - which is evident in the photos where we see lots of things that have bolted and gone to seed (I think) ... right now I couldn't even say what was what anymore - I've misplaced my garden map and I'm not yet knowledgeable enough to know what anything looks like once I've taken it out of the seed package. This I believe with all come with time and everything I know will sort itself into proper categories and make sense ... don't you just love those EUREKA moments where you just want to lie down and roll in all the green stuff ... I'm not sure if I'm making this up or not but I think that the weeds might actually be acting as mulch a little bit??? So what I did was to put on my gloves and sit on my little yellow kids chair and begin pulling weeds up like a crazed monkey on speed - it's how I had to do if I want to get out of there with enough done to feel satisfied. It's a little meditative once I get going. My cell phone rang at one point and I answered it and kept going ... and within two minutes I yanked up a basil bush and lost my glasses somewhere under a huge weed by the fence. After which I wrote a note to self to remember to put an extra pair of glasses in the car so that if it happens again I can at least look for them with glasses on so I can see ... I was almost resigned to the fact that I might have to wait to find them next fall or next year maybe after the snow melted.

This is how I left the paste patch two weeks ago ...

This is what it looked like yesterday when I arrived!

This is what it looked like when I left yesterday ...

Two mini pumpkin plants that'll produce fruit that look like Cinderella Coaches! Yeah yeah yeah - I might
still have some weeding to do - remember I think it's acting as a bit of a mulch ... & that's a good thing (for me)!