I took down the “net room”, Pulled and cut vicious vines coming over my back fence from the yard behind me. That vine would take over that back garden. I had to get the vine off that back wall every spring.
We moved about 120 large pots from the wood deck onto the actual garden. There were three volunteer onions in one pot so I brought those here. Then, we had to take the weeds/vines/etc. to the dumpster. By that time, we were toast.
We both decided we are too old to do that type work again. Our sweat at least became cold sweat in the car. My townhouse is between 3-4 hours of straight driving to the house in Lewisville, north of Dallas. When we got back, I went straight to the shower. Since we have two, he went to the other one.
It is 100 degrees here. Been that way the past few days. At 81 years of age, I cannot work outside in that heat.
In the past few years, I have learned how to grow plants from seed and actually get food to eat. I documented my progress on this gardening thread - both my successes and failures and my battle with squirrels and birds. :o)
I envy the great pictures all of you have posted. I appreciate the work it took to produce those plants.
Marcella
Maybe you can hire someone to take care of the yard for you. That’s what we have done for our place in Springfield. We have a guy that goes over and checks stuff out to see if there is any storm damage or anything, and then he mows the yard, and clears the vines and stuff off the fence.
It took a while to find someone reliable who didn’t want an arm and a leg.