Our Garden 2009

Gardening Stories and Updates...



I spent about an hour and a half yesterday weeding the raspberries. I planted about 2 dozen shoots this spring in one long row. Then, I planted rhubarb at the end of the row. Well, I'd given up on the rhubarb because it never did come up. The raspberries were surrounded and covered in weeds in not much time at all. Yesterday, I finally got around to weeding them. I did not know weeds could get so large! I was pulling up pig weeds that were almost as tall as I am!

Despite all the weeds, my faith in the power of nature was restored. Not only were those raspberries still alive and growing under all those weeds, I found the rhubarb! It finally came up.

Also, I was amazed and very pleased to find a volunteer tomato plant growing in between our raspberries and corn. It was hidden by weeds and with the corn and raspberries so close, it wouldn't have room to really grow. So, I dug it up.

I already have 18 tomato plants, so I decided to plant this one in a pot and take it inside. I'm going to try to keep it alive over the winter and have fresh tomatoes in December! I'll let you know how that goes.

I have a very bad sunburn on my right shoulder and a sunburn in the shape of a smile on my lower back. Apparently my shirt rode up as I bent over pulling weeds. Ahh...the joys of being super fair-skinned. I have a number of muscles telling me that I worked them way to hard yesterday. But, after being sick last week, it feels so good to have accomplished something and still have energy.