Green Thumb? Hardly!

One of my greatest laments about being sickly the past two months is that my gardening has suffered. Despite that I've not watered, weeded, Miracle-Gro'ed and performed the Dark Arts upon my flower beds, stuff has still managed to grow and thrive. Not all of it weeds to my surprise.

The amount of lilies I planted last year is far more than what came up this year, so I think next spring I'll have to replenish what died or disappeared beneath the soil. What confounds me is how out of control in growth the bleeding heart plant is! I gave it two doses of Miracle-Gro earlier in the season and I can't believe how it became a monster. I'm going to have to prune it back this fall or else it will choke out the tulips that are around it.

Another plant out of control is the lamb's ear I planted last year. It's really consumed the space I put it in. The lavender next to the rose bush also is monster in size. I'm also stunned at the powers of the rose bush. Despite how sickly it looks it keeps flowering, though this year the blooms aren't as many because I wasn't out applying the various poisons to it each week to "cure" it of whatever it was suffering from, be it insects or mildews or whatever it has going on.

There is one problem that is apparent and that is that some evil vine has crept into the yard and is taking over. It is infested within the rose bush and is working its way around the house. It's in the back yard and seems to be taking over the rhododendron bush up front. I wonder how easy it's going to be to slay this wicked vine? Just the word vine makes me shudder more than the word weed.

The lawn is suffering because we've not been able to apply to it the various lawn enhancing chemicals it requires. The dandelions reign supreme. Perhaps they are killing off the moss that plagues the yard? I can only hope. I'm wishingfully thinking by autumn we can afford to apply some fertilizer to help it out. It has suffered so much and it was just starting to look healthy. The previous owners of this house really did nothing to the grass and it showed.

Part of me thinks about just herbiciding everything and starting over. I see the HUGE weeds growing in the flower beds and I feel weak just looking at them. I've never seen thistles the size looming in the tulip beds. I guess that is what a weed-whacker is for?