Those of you who are avid gardeners should probably turn away now...

(Dad, Sharon, Scott...I am warning you, this is not for the faint of heart).
Okay, I warned you...
Here is a view of my "Garden of Weedin" after I spent about 2 hours pulling weeds Saturday.

This is a better angle, at least now you can find the leeks and tomatoes!

So my dream of having a beautifully designed garden kind of fell short...well, let's just say I have already asked Dan to shoot me if I attempt to plant a garden next year. Something happens to me in the middle of winter, I get these wild ideas and plans for a garden...then spring comes and I have been cooped up for so long inside that the idea of a garden and all the work that it takes to tend to one sound GREAT!!! So I march myself over to the local garden center and buy everything I need to plant. I carefully plot my garden in a very nifty shape...no dull rows for this gardener! Now I have a garden.

It even gets watered daily, for well... about a month. Then school gets out for the summer, we go on vacation, play dates with friends, camping, gymnastics, swim lessons, birthday parties, pool parties...on and on and before you know it... the summer has gone by and I have not spent much time tending to my garden. I turn the sprinkler on once in a while for good measure, but pay no attention to the massive amount of weeds encroaching on my plants...In fact I couldn't even see my sprinkler through the jungle of weeds...just saw the water shooting up from beneath the tall over-grown leaves.

Weeds aren't the only problem. You see, these gigantic volunteer sunflower plants just showed up one day, along with volunteer pumpkins, tomatillos and California poppies. They pretty much crowded out everything the weeds didn't get to...if you see my herbs, can you tell them that help is on the way!

Would you like a tour? Would you?...come along...


My herbs are here somewhere near the obelisk. Zander planted this Zinnia plant on a field trip last spring. Zinnias are one of my favorite summer flowers. The purple flower is from an eggplant bush, followed up by a photo of an eggplant growing on the vine.




Pumpkin flower; green pumpkin has a ways to go before it turns orange;
mini Jack-be-little pumpkins



Tomatillos (for making salsa verde); Zander's cherry tomato plant; green tomatoes, still not red yet; green bell pepper (this is the first time I have successfully grown a pepper that actually looks like a pepper!


Ah yes...my cabbage patch. I thought I might have a problem with the bunnies snacking on this part of the garden. They got all my strawberries and left the cabbage to the slugs! Yuck! A few cucumbers I have yet to pick along with some jalapenos.

Here is an artichoke which I am hoping will get bigger; what's left of our broccoli (it was sooo good a few months ago; and then we have grapes. We have a grape vine near the garden that has attached itself to everything growing within the vicinity, so now I have to try and untangle all the vines and give this bad boy a trim!

We have a lot of pairs on our tree, I just hope the bugs leave them alone until they are ready to eat. Well, there you have it...my garden. Better luck next time! At least we are able to get some produce from our garden this year.