As you know, I’ve been slowly (very slowly) reclaiming a garden in my back yard.  And I’ve found regular weeds, super-sized weeds with deep roots, and vines.  Nasty vines.  I think they might be bittersweet.  They’ve wrapped themselves around everything, somehow even managing to reach up to tree branches overhanging the garden and pulling them down.  And wherever they touch the ground, they seem to root.

In the last episode, I found one stone of a path I had built through the garden.  It was exciting to rediscover this path. But there I was – balanced on one foot – looking for the next step.

You read in my first post about reclaiming my garden that I planned to start in the middle and work to the right.  Then you walked with me as I found buried treasure, only to have the deer eat it by the next day.

I finally did it. After weeks of looking at my back garden, I decided to tackle clearing it out. Reclaiming it as a garden, rather than just give it over to the weeds. And what weeds there are. I don’t even know what most of them are. I just know they’re nasty. Tall, matted root structure, and aggressive. Some even have huge thorns, and other are vines that twist around branches of what would otherwise be lovely bushes, choking the life out of them.