We’ve still no break in the heat and humidity here.  The veggies don’t mind they are growing like crazy.  Then again, so are the weeds.  Since the veggie garden is in the area of the yard that gets the most sun and it gets it all day, it’s been impossible to spend much time out there weeding it without suffering from heat stroke.

     Thus, I’ve become the midnight gardener and am out weeding by flashlight at the oddest hours.  I’m also killing the cucumber bugs as I come across them.  My neighbors think I’m strange.  That’s okay though because I’m one-step ahead of the bugs and the weeds doing it this way.

     Do you know how you tell someone is an avid gardener?  They will pull weeds out of yours as they converse with you.  I had a young woman stop by the fence and admire the garden today.  She was talking to me about perennials and I went to the gate to unlock it and invite her in.  I offered her a few of my more prolific perennials that have taken over some areas of the flower gardens.  While we talking and I was digging them out for her, she began to pull a few weeds.  It reminded me of G and me when we are checking out each other’s gardens.  We do the same thing.  Spotting real gardener is easy.