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War in the Garden
| It's been years since I made a
garden. So why pick this one? Was it because of the
excessive amount of snow and moisture we had, heck their
were only two half dead weeds in the whole thing. The
house I live in now was vacant for over thirty years. The
neighbor lady decided the back part of this vacant place
would be a great place to put her garden, and it was. The
ground is fertile and it improved the looks of the place. Earlier in the year she called and said she wasn't feeling well enough to plant her garden this year. We didn't mind if she did plant it on our property, what's neighbors for? Anyway it did improve the looks of the place. Besides we were to busy to mess with a garden and every once in awhile she would bring something to us from this precious place. I called upon my sister who only wanted a small garden to save some seed for mine. I also mentioned tomato plants and a couple of squash plants. I travel out to the farm nearly every day and to my amazement sis would plant the garden when I was gone. Soon I had five tomato plants, three cucumbers, two rows of parsnips, celery, zucchini, pumpkin and a winter squash plant. And let us not forget the big row of green beans. Whoa! It seems my sister's dream of a
sucker had come true. Who was going to water this garden
and keep it weed free? Well you guessed it. The real problem came from the
cucumber and winter squash plants. It seems my sis wanted
to save space, so we didn't have to BIG a garden. She
started by planting in a small space, about four feet
wide. Soon the cucumbers were crawling through the zucchini
and tomato plants and the zucchini's were pushing the
beans over. I found a cucumber under one of the zucchini
plants bottom leaves. These nasty things were wrapping
stranglers around every plant and weed it came to. The
winter squash were doing the same thing. I now have a
winter squash hanging inside a small tree. |