where I've been (or really, how the state of my garden prevented me from posting)

Well, in the weeks since my last post, I have learned a few things.

1. Summer is busy. It's hard to find time to pull weeds, and if I don't pull weeds, I don't really want to tell anyone about the state of my garden :)
2. Tomato cages are important. Very important. And if you wait until August, when your poor tomato plants are a tangled mess just above dirt level, it will be very hard to find cages, plant stakes, really anything you could use to help prop tomatoes up, in the store.
3. A small front garden is not the place to plant a cucumber. Thank goodness I only planted one! It has taken over the entire area and is now growing up our living room window.
4. Those little shoots I thought were marigolds were not marigolds. They grew into thriving weeds. I don't know what kind - if it weren't dark I would take a picture - but they completely took over.
5. I like pulling weeds. Too bad I didn't figure that out before the unidentified weed took over. But I think it's vanquished now. Ha!

Now that the garden is just a tangled mess instead of a weedy tangled mess, I will try to keep up on it more and post more often. Plus, I want someone to tell me what my weed infestation was.