So I was walking through the garden the other evening when I came across a thistle — a nasty, spiky thistle about as tall as me. It dwarfed the black-eyed Susans it had sprung up in. It almost blocked the stone path — where I walk everyday. As my dear momma would have said: If it were any more obvious, it would have bit me.

Of course, I wasn’t walking through the garden alone. Oh no, I was with my neighbor. She’d just been asking some advice about her container plants when we ran into that darn thistle. She stopped mid-question. I mumbled something about needing to weed.

It seemed like I’d just finished weeding. But then I started to think about when I last spent some quality time in the garden. Guess it’s been a while. . .

You know how it happens. It’s late summer. Everything’s in bloom. There’s not all that much to do in the garden, so you get a little lazy. You water now and then, but hands-and-knees weeding? Who needs it?

My garden, apparently.

So help me out here. I need a little advice on how to keep my weeding mojo going. Do you have a weeding schedule that you stick to all summer long? Do you weed a little every time you walk out of your house? Or do you sort of let things go a bit while the garden season winds down?

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