Road Trip - The Aftermath

The down-side to going on an epic month-long road trip is that life doesn't stop simply because you're logging miles, making memories, and having a great time.  Back home the garden continues to grow and so do those little pests we in the gardening business call...WEEEDS.  Many of my bloomers are already done blooming so it's hard to tell where the perennials end and the weeds begin, but I still have a LOT of work to do.

After an hour, I could barely see any progress although my trailer was getting full and my hands were starting to complain.

Three hours, half a gallon of water, and a few rose thorn stabbings later and...you can still barely tell that I have done any work. *sigh    Let's call this my first run; a second run to come in a week or so. By that time I should have made it all the way around the gardens the FIRST time.  And from this angle it looks more accomplished.

Unfortunately, the weeds have grown up so badly around my compost bins that I can't get to them. This trailer load will have to go to the forest like the "old days" (before last summer when we deforested our property).

This is the "burm" that seperates our lawn from the road ditch (and helps prevent spring thaw flooding). You'd never know it by this picture, but there are two young sugar maples literally "lost in the weeds".  To say I have a LOT of work left to do is what one might call an understatement.

 

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.  ~ Gordon Hinckley