My Garden

Here is a picture of the pathetic excuse I have for a garden this year. So tiny I'm almost ashamed of it. It is exactly the size of a 1984 Ford conversion van. I know this because our old van was parked in this exact spot for several years, and I'd been trying for ages to get it moved back somewhere out of site instead of right along the driveway where it was. I tried really hard to get the hubby to plow up our real garden this year, to no avail. We have about an acre of ground fenced off on the property next door where I used to live that I had been working on and building up the soil for several years. It's a really nice spot, and certainly big enough to plant any and everything you would ever want to grow. HIs excuse this year was that we have renters over there now, and they have a bunch of kids that are pretty wild, and he was afraid that they would just get into it and tear it all to pieces. The renters had actually tried to plant some stuff one year and their boy pulled up all the plants. I can understand how putting that much work and effort into a garden to have it destroyed by some little hooligan would tend to really upset the garden owner, so I suppose he had a point, but I have a lot of things I would like to plant this I simply do not have room for here. Watermelons for one in particluar, they take up a lot of room, and they have been really expensive this year. At the swap meet last week they were $10, which I think is just crazy. Especially since they are relatively easy to grow.

So anyway, I am stuck with this tiny spot. Oh well, maybe next year.

You can see I tried to protect it with some chicken wire. I've been blaming the wild rabbits on the destruction of a number of my plants, so I put that around them. Then come to find out, when the pepper plants I had set out got stripped to bare stalks it was one of those huge green tomato horn worms. I didn't think they ate pepper plants but all the peppers I set out this year got stripped by them. And they were hot peppers too!

think your garden is bad you should see mine the weeds and flowers are nearly to my window and the Housing Executive cuts it and it grows back faster than anything. it was cut about 3 weeks ago and its bigger than it was before its not my responsibility to do it so I don't unless I was to get a letter telling me to then I would be out there doing it and what would happen in about 2 weeks time the dam thing would be back again. guess its the price you pay for rain and the cold weather in the winter and the horrible warm weather in the summer.

by the way sorry for talking about my garden and not yours. all you need sheepdog is a fence and more plants and you should be all set.

That's ok, you can talk about your garden too! You can talk about anything! Shucks, just talk!

Well, we finally got some badly needed rain here. Things were about to dry up and blow away. Sure glad I have a good well to water plants from. But now I won't have to waste electricity for several days pupmping the water out to keep up with all my plants.