I admit it, I don't like gardening. Well, maybe not the entire process. It's all about weeding. I can't STAND weeding. It seems like such a waste of time.

To be fair, I don't deal with regular weeds like dandelions, pigweed and spurge. We have BERMUDA GRASS. It grows like wildfire and can take over a garden plot in what seems like just a few hours. And it's virtually impossible to get rid of around here. Not only is the stuff incredibly deep rooted and fast-growing, these features (and it's drought tolerance) make it about the only lawn choice for the summers here. Meaning, everyone in the neighborhood carefully cultivates it. We do too, I'm ashamed to confess. The rabbits and chickens love nibbling on it but it just doesn't taste all that great to me. Why can't there be an edible plant that grows as rampant?

A few months ago we placed an order for two desert-tolerant cherry trees. Last week, we found a beautiful bare root peach tree at Costco. The Man's heart is in orchards, and we've been going back and forth about his expanding tree collection versus my garden (which gets moved every so often to accomodate a new tree.) I'm beginning to see wisdom in this move. If the Bermuda grows around trees, one simply mows or weed whacks 'em out.

With that in mind, the cherry and peach trees will likely go in one of the two open areas of the yard, leaving me with the current garden spot behind the citrus trees.