All the rain we had this spring plus the fertilizer I spread on the yard and around the plantings have perhaps created monsters! I was mowing Wednesday evening around my white pine and burning bushes, realising they had put on tons of new growth. It was hard to reach in under the pine to mow it had gained so much new growth. The word is LUSH. Usually by this time, things are a bit dry around here and we are wishing for some rain. Not so this year. And I'm loving it since my objective is screening as much as possible with my shrubs and trees.
What we have been having is gusty wind all day and all night for 5 days now. I mean 43 mile per hour gusts yesterday!
Ok, enough weather school. Talk about a geek alert, people.
I've got things planted in every nook and cranny this year. I just put in some peat pots of cucumbers over in a shrub bed to crawl up my chain link. Similar things are tucked here and there in unlikely places. Shrug. I have valuable space being taken up in my garden by bequeathed raspberry bushes, peonies, iris, and strawberries that I moved out of my original strawberry bed to improve it before moving them back- just haven't managed it. So I am using other real estate for vegetables.
Rumor has it I will have next week to myself. The kid's dad is taking them. I'm all giddy! But then, Ill miss them horribly while they are gone. I hate that catch.