I have a confession to make. I share my garden with, wait for it, wait for it, weeds! Yes, you heard me right, if weeds were a cash crop, I would have enough money to go to a movie and buy some popcorn and a drink.
I fondly look back on March when I dreamily planned my perfect vegetable garden. As I planted rows of tomatoes, green beans, pepper plants, cucumbers, squash, eggplant, soybeans, okra and cow peas I envisioned a beautiful organic garden free of weeds and bugs. I was excited about the new heirloom tomatoes I planted as I harvested delicious strawberries. Now, I can't even find my strawberry plants.
The cucumber plants are gone, the tomato plants are barren and like the strawberry plants, I can barely see the squash plants. I have several soybeans on the plants, but I don't know when to harvest them. You'd think with the world wide web I'd be able to find this out, but I've had no luck on this topic. My talent on the web equals my ability to keep the weeds away.
However, this winter I will enjoy many jars of pickles and relish, frozen beans and squash, some salsa I canned and delicious jellies I made from blackberries and grapes. I am still harvesting okra and eggplant which I am eating everyday. Yum, yum.
I am now now looking forward to the first frost. Who knows what I'll find after all the weeds die down. Just wait until next year. I will have a perfect, weed-free garden with mulched rows so beautiful I will be able to tip toe through the squash and tomato plants barefoot.
Have a beautiful and blessed day everyone and may you feel the presence of the good Lord with you always.
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