Here it is the middle of July and I am swamped in the weeding and not feeling happy about my garden. The biggest disappointment is the veggie garden.. try as I might I can't get the weeds under control. Put in two raised beds and even they became inundated with weeds. Seeds I planted did not germinate in the soil.. too dry? And the bindweed came from both sides of the raised beds and snuck in under the boards. I need to take aggressive action on that weed. This year it's thicker than the year before. Interesting thing I laid a pile of lawn leaves in the long-veggie garden area and haven't seen a bindweed come through that area, yet!!! The asparagus area is full of bindweed...
Plan of action.. spray, yes spray the entire open area in the veggie garden (except for the raised bed areas) give it a couple of days to take hold of the plant and then lay black plastic over the entire garden.. smother that plant out... let the plastic lay for the rest of the year, thru the winter and into spring. Yes this means I'll lose the asparagus plants, but they seem to be mostly female plants anyway, producing way too many seeds and not enough stalk thickness.
I haven't really gotten anything done with the side garden.. want to amend the soil, loosen up some of the compacted, depleted soil areas and then plant more perennials. Hope to still get to this area, work the soil and then plant with the perennials that Tagawa has on sale this fall, always a nice selection of perennials this fall that will look great next yeat.
Well I best go, I have the garden hose running in the veggie garden and don't want to turn it into a bog garden!!!!
K
