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Into the Garden I Go

August 12, 2006 By Carol Michel Leave a Comment


I’m heading into the garden this weekend with many plans.

We had some lovely rain this week so the grass has grown to the point that I’m going to need a bush hog mower to cut it. Well, it’s not quite that tall, but I definitely need to mow it. Plus, since I am mowing on Saturday, I’ll take the extra time to trim everything up nicely before hand.

One of my sisters was surprised to find out that I do all the trimming before I mow. She thought everyone did it afterwards. The reason I do it first is because then when I mow any trimmings of long grass are chopped up by the mower. I know most of my neighbors trim afterwards. Maybe I am just a renegade, but it always made more sense to me to trim first.

Then after mowing it is on to the vegetable garden to do some weeding, hoeing, and harvesting. I hope to pick a peck of peppers, or at least enough for a rather large batch of salsa. I have nearly two dozen tomatoes on the kitchen table, so I’ve got to do something with them. Plus, if I am lucky, I might just have some eggplant to harvest. I love eggplant. And wouldn’t it be just the best if I found another ear of corn to pick?

I’ll make the salsa in the evening, because I don’t want to give up the day time hours to make salsa when I can be in the garden. Would you?

After I get the lawn and the vegetable garden all in order, I also hope to finish up the last of some shrub trimming that I put on hold when it got hot outside and then catch up on deadheading some of the perennials.

Doesn’t that sound like just the best weekend?
Happy Gardening!

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