In the meantime, we are doing all we can to be able to return home to a garden that is not full of 4 foot tall weeds. That meant getting clever about how to suppress all the weeds in the pathways - the pathways that about 6 years ago, we have carved out and tamped down with decomposed granite. They weren’t done exceptionally well, and well, grass and weeds have started to take over. I mean, we did once upon a time have a grass backyard before we sheet mulched it into the garden (and pathways) it is today.
In any event, we came up with the best solution we could: cardboard, layered with leaf mold (thank you for several years of that!), covered with wet newpaper, and followed up with about 1 inch of pathway mulch and another inch of cedar mulch. It only cost about $100 and maybe 3 to 4 hours of our labor. And that “deli” paper role I inherited from a friend came in handy when we ran out of spare old newspaper. Now, we won’t come home to 4 foot tall weeds, except perhaps in some of the planting beds. Hope to knock some of that out before we leave, and then perhaps we’ll come home to roses and flowers blooming.
It feels weird to not have tomatoes that I’ll buy from the Harvest garden sale this year. Nor will I be planting anything edible until we return home. At least there will be less to hand water by our wonderful housesitter this time.
Ok, back to it before the really hot weather hits.
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