What happens when you leave your garden unattended for a month? You come back to a jungle. Fortunately, we had someone water the garden but in terms of weeding and maintenance it was a free for all. Particularly, wily were the cucumbers. This was a surprise to me because I have never had much success with cucumbers in the Midwest, every year they just do okay. Not this year, however. The cucumbers were growing and climbing all over the place, even up onto the tomato cages. I had to pick well over a dozen, a number of which were intertwined on the tomato plants. At least I didn't need to run to the store for fresh veggies, I picked three plastic grocery bags full of vegetables.
The day after we got back from Thailand, my dad and I went out to work in the garden. We were still off on time and I figured that if I was going to be wide awake at 5am, I might as well do something productive. I pulled weeds and pruned monstrous tomato plants as my dad pruned my lilac bushes and brought the pumpkin plants that had jumped the fence into the neighbors' yard back into ours. It has taken a few more early mornings of yard work, but things are pretty much back under control and we are already enjoying zucchini bread and lots, and lots, and lots of cucumbers.
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