It's been too hot here to garden, despite some intermittent rain - heat indices have been in the triple digits even when the actual temperature is only in the lower 90s.
Which is my excuse for not gardening, and I ain't got nothing but weeds, basically. Something that looks suspiciously like poison ivy is growing in my herb garden, and as for my flower garden, my few surviving marigolds are being swallowed up in weeds.
Before I tackle that poison ivy, I definitely have to get some gloves, or else.
*sigh* I'm so done with summer.
I think your plywood idea sounds fantastic - if my herb and flower gardens weren't in front of our house, I'd do that, too. Although, I suppose, one could always put mulch over the plywood so it wouldn't look bad.
Mulberrys are awful, aren't they? They come up as volunteers here, too. So invasive. My other big problem is the holly bush some damn fool planted on the corner of my house. We've cut it back several times but it always rebounds like a NBA star. I keep threatening to put a chain around the bottom and rip it out by the roots but I'm afraid if I do that corner of the house will fall into a hole. And, add to that, it's apparently THE hang-out spot for several species of stinging insects.
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Which is my excuse for not gardening, and I ain't got nothing but weeds, basically. Something that looks suspiciously like poison ivy is growing in my herb garden, and as for my flower garden, my few surviving marigolds are being swallowed up in weeds.
Before I tackle that poison ivy, I definitely have to get some gloves, or else.
*sigh* I'm so done with summer.
I think your plywood idea sounds fantastic - if my herb and flower gardens weren't in front of our house, I'd do that, too. Although, I suppose, one could always put mulch over the plywood so it wouldn't look bad.
Mulberrys are awful, aren't they? They come up as volunteers here, too. So invasive. My other big problem is the holly bush some damn fool planted on the corner of my house. We've cut it back several times but it always rebounds like a NBA star. I keep threatening to put a chain around the bottom and rip it out by the roots but I'm afraid if I do that corner of the house will fall into a hole. And, add to that, it's apparently THE hang-out spot for several species of stinging insects.
Ugh.