The beauty of having a vegetable garden crammed-full of tomato plants, all sorts of squash, corn, New England Pie Pumpkins, cantaloupe, peppers, fennel, collard greens, and nasturtiums, (did I forget anything?) is that it is SO FULL, that I don't have to do much weeding.
That Spouse o' Mine, sort of an authority on growing green things - biosystems engineer - thinks it is outlandish that I garden this way.
The pumpkins and cantaloupe (oh, yes! And the birdhouse gourds!) are all trailing and vining their ways everywhere. So I have trained them out the garden fence and into the pasture. And up and over the garden fence, too. Talk about a Secret Garden...no telling what we will find there in a few weeks....
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I like the untidiness of this "Surprise Garden." I wonder if you ever find a vegetable and think,"Kale? Did I plant kale?"
Oh, it happens! That Spouse o' Mine (cringing) asked me a few weeks ago if I knew what a particular plant in one of our beds was. Weed? Planted flower? What?
He cringed more when I replied that I wasn't sure but that it might be a volunteer-something and that's why I had not weeded it out.
Hope springs eternal. Especially out here in the dry and wind.
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