This past Sunday, I finally got a chance to start tidying up the garden (wilderness). It has been sorely neglected between the end of the school year with all the grading, meetings, and stuff and our middle son’s graduation.

Plants were out of control.

We had:

• maple seedlings
• rampant violets
• proliferating dandelions
• wayward grasses in the lettuce
• an invasive climbing vine
• spreading gooseneck
• tall leggy weeds growing everywhere
• poison ivy (the Starter Husband took care of those for me)

So here are some pictures to prove to myself and others that hours worth of weeding were worth it.

After weeding the lettuce patch, I was pleased to uncover several tiny basil plants which had been fighting against the other green things.

Lettuce patch before

Lettuce patch after