Mon, 27 Aug 2007

Garden time Again!
Well, I cleaned up the veggie garden yesturday with the help of my hubby, Eric. The whole thing usually gets totally overgrown in August, and this year was no different. Old tomato plants and half-dead basil, all because I totally lose my will to brave the heat and water the darn things. This year, things are a bit different, though. There is a fig tree growing next to the veggie patch, and it grew about three times its size this year because we had so much rain. It completely shades about half of the veggie patch, so it looks like I am going to have to move the garden elsewhere. I am not completely sure of my plan of action yet, but I do not want to trim the fig tree because it provides a great deal of shade on the western side of the house and shades the AC unit. I will keep you posted. The vines in the backyard that I talked about in my last blog at the beginning of August grew back almost entirely since we cut them down. Eric ran them over with the lawn mower yesturday, so they are pretty easy to control at this point. We might try to dig them out but I am hoping we can just wear them out by repeated mowings. I am off to buy a new string trimmer, mower and blower for the business! This time I am going to get professional-grade implements, since in the past I just always got stuff from the Sears or Lowes. I am going to get an Echo trimmer and Blower as well as a toro mower, all heavy duty models. We'll see how it goes.


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