Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Another Jungle


Every year my vegetable garden turns into a jungle.  Despite careful planning to maximize the small space and yet keep things neat, things always go wild.  I know it is my fault.  I cannot bring myself to pull all those self-seeded sunflower, dill, cilantro and borage plants.  That certainly adds to the issue.  The other problem is that I plant very closely.  As I said, the space is small and I want to get as much food out of it as I can.  But as a result, I now have to climb into the back of the tomato row on my hands and knees.

And then every year there is one huge sunflower that dominates the garden, like a sentinel.  I should dress it like a scarecrow the way it looms over the rest of the plants.  Someday, I swear that I will have a nice neat garden with wide rows that I can amble down with a basket on my hip. So here is the garden today.  Do you think there is any hope for me?

1 comment:

ForwardTwo said...

Wow it's an amazing change in 2 months! Looks great to me. My sunflowers are dying. I was told they need tons of water- but I think I overwatered. oh well. my grasses are doing great.

oh and the name is my son's blog- I am blog free so I guess I got his instead.it's me java.