Ok this is my second try at posting...my pc is eating my posts today. 

Our spring started of with 2 weeks of nice hot weather and ever since then it's been cool and rainy.  So I'm just now starting to get into the garden.  

I'm working on the shady garden right now.  This is my patch on top of the hill that boarders a pine bush.  I've found it to be a wonderful place to grow cooler crops in the summer heat.  Cabbage, broccoli, and lettuce seem to love it especially and keeps them from bolting.  It has just one problem...It's infested with cleavers!  If you have never seen cleavers they can be a useful herb but NOT in the vegetable garden!  They are very invasive, choking out everything in it's path.  It's leaves are covered in sticky hairs that rip your arms like velcro when you try to weed them out.  So this year I'm trying something new, fabric mulch! 

Yesterday it wasn't raining so I got two rolls put down and planted some of our cabbage, celery and lettuce.  I hope to finish covering the garden with it soon and get some bark mulch on top to.

Cabbage

Celery

Lettuce

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Posted by mamaof2andtwins

I love pictues of gardens with lush veggies and herbs. Yours looks fantastic.
Blessings,
Jennie

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Posted by erkopp98

Yum! Do you have a greenhouse where you started the plants from seed?

Erisa

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Posted by Christina (www.keeping-home.com/blog)

My family jokes that since vegetables are so much harder to grow than weeds, if we just start eating a particular weed it will become scarce! I've never noticed that happening though. lol

We do eat several edible weeds, but I don't recall ever eating cleavers.

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