In The Weeds

There are two constants for every summer here at Glory Farm…watering and weeding.  We will never get all the weeds, but we do try to get a lot of them.  Ignore the weeds and they quickly take over.  Due to my surgery, My Loving Spouse has weeded more this year than ever, at least in the vegetable garden.  He has been commenting on how fast the weeds have grown this year.

My newly built flower garden has been a labor of creative love.  However, shortly after returning from the hospital, it was ‘in the weeds’ and there was little I could do.The truth is, there is very little we truly do alone.  Three friends have shown up more than once, armed with trowels, buckets and a willingness to pull our weeds.  Rescuing my flower garden….Teaching me, that love comes in many forms and that cows like to eat weeds.

My Iris’ have taken off and have needed to be moved about.  I put them too close to the fence and learned one night, that the cows liked to eat those too!  It seems that the only thing they won’t eat are ‘noxious weeds’, it figures! Noxious weeds like thistles are thorny, problematic, annoying and must be removed, mowed, cleared, killed…and then they tend to return the next year.  The trick is to get them mowed down before the Noxious Weed Board shows up to tell you, ‘you have noxious weeds…remove them’.

(Seriously, this is a true job.  It makes me laugh a bit, as I’ve known people who would excel at going around and pointing out what is wrong with someone else’s garden…. I get it, it is a farming community, we need to remove noxious weeds.)

I kind of like that word….noxious.

Okay, I’ve done little so far this summer, but rest.  However, my garden is blooming.

and I am blessed.

(….and Gunner likes mud.)