While I was in Nebraska, it rained here in Baltimore. It rained a lot. That meant my garden plants really did well while I was gone. But that also meant that the weeds grew really well while I was gone.
Yesterday I did some weeding and cleaning up. The sky was overcast, so I didn’t have to worry about the sun, but it was still quite warm and VERY humid. I was sweating like crazy while I worked. The most prolific weed was a tall, fleshy plant. I don’t know what it was, but it pulled out of the ground pretty easily, so that was nice.
I threw all the pulled weeds against the back wall. After a while, I noticed a lot of bumblebees flying around the weed pile. I think maybe they were living in the ground against the wall and I buried their homes. Oops! Sorry, bees!
I didn’t finish cleaning and weeding the whole garden, but I got a big chunk taken care of. Now maybe I can just do my regular practice of weeding for ten minutes here and ten minutes there, and I will eventually get everything looking nice.
The before and after:
In that first photo, your …. banana tree? (hope I got that right) looks like just one big stalk. In the second you can see that ‘it’ is really several. (Wow. Typing that, I felt like Captain Obvious.) Your garden looks lovely! Here’s to a humidity-free day! (Stay inside.)
Nice result, sir!
I know what you mean about the weeds taking over when one goes away. Yesterday’s humidity-despite-being-overcast-and-otherwise-cooler day convinced me to put off weeding altogether – there is still much to be done in the back 40, so to speak, around here for the same reasons you mentioned. Joke’s on me, though: it’s so humid today the windows in the house are fogged over from the outside. So…an iced-tea-drinkin’ day in my forecast.
You need to fill in all those empty spaces with non-weedy plants. I try to do that, but it seems I end up planting flowers that turn weedy 🙂