Total mess

No, that's not an abandoned lot. It's my garden. My sad, neglected garden. I let it go for most of the spring. Coming home late and spending my weekends doing other stuff (like just laying around all day) didn't leave me much time to maintain it. But, I decided Wednesday morning to clean it out.

What motivated me to finally stop being lazy and get control over it? Because I'm dying for some fresh basil! I planted it too early this year. We had one last mild frost which resulted in lots of dead basil. I had planted quite a bit of them. I even had one of those new 'Perpetou' ones that never go to seed. Argh.

Since then, I've been too distracted to jump back on the gardening wagon. But, I'm feeling the need for fresh summer herbs to cook with, so I set to the task of weeding. The two big offenders making my garden an overgrown mess were a straggley dill and a now wild epazote plant. Man, does that plant produce tons of seeds! Once I pulled those guys up, it looked much better. All that remained were shallow rooted local weeds. I also got a bit of a surprise. Underneath all that dill I found a carrot growing, a remnant from my fall vegetable garden.

This weekend I'll be planting some new herbs along the side of the apartment. I'll be gabbing about them later too.

In the mean time, stay cool!