I just brought Pax up from his hidy hole in the basement, thinking the storms were over, when bam! pretty much in the back yard, and the power gone for a few seconds.

Hot, steamy, and wet, which is great growing weather, unfortunatley for weeds as well and desirables. This morning I worked up a couple of good blisters and a lot of sweat hacking with a hoe, and this evening Sue and I did the final pulliing.

So, the sea of weeds is no more, but also gone are all the beets (impossible to separate weeds from beets).

All of which proves the point that it is really imposible to run a garden remotely. (Is there an app for that?) The new plan, which probably should have been initiated years ago, I think, is to use landscape fabric, everywhere but where useful things are trying to make a living.