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Just got back from the "satellite" garden my landlady planted at her bf's farm. She got everything planted, but nothing is staked or trellised, so it's all one big undifferentiated mass of cucumber vines, squash vines, tomato plants, and weeds. I picked off about 2 dozen overripe cucumbers and maybe 4 ready to eat ones.

It's gotten to this state because she decided to start a NEW garden, at her own place, for the leftover plants that were still in pots. Now she's decided she wants to start a butterfly garden in the back yard. Meanwhile the whole place is completely overgrown with weeds.

And I thought I had ADHD!

women have the right to change their mind .... which really means it's your job to understand.

and, yes, I do understand ever too well

One years seeds seven years weeds! - a very true saying. Unfortunately.

I should be over at the ADD forum asking for advice on how to slow this woman down enough to make a PLAN for her farm. I told her I wanted to help her make it into a profitable enterprise, but I think I spoke rashly. She's extremely smart and creative and energetic and enthusiastic ... in every direction at once! Makes me dizzy.

The "too energetic" part can be worked off somehow

I just need to figure out how to gently, good-humoredly, help her to focus a lot more of that energy and enthusiasm into actually getting some of her excellent creative ideas accomplished. Which is tricky, seeing as how strictly speaking I work for her and not the other way around. Still, I see my role here as something like a project manager, and the first, most basic, part of that is helping her to define the project. Right? *sigh*

Prioritize then focus. After focusing, re-evaluate the priorities and then focus on them in an orderly fashion. Once that is completely understood - repeat.

Orderly fashion, disorderly passion mix well at the time - but there is always that hangover effect.

I can't get her to slow down enough to step back and prioritize. I can't get her (yet) to slow down enough to even get all her ideas out on the table so they can be sorted and prioritized. Gah ... she never stops talking, a mile a minute, and most of it's interesting but GAAAH! I just ... I don't have the hyperactive kind of ADHD, and I just don't know how to approach it. She's making my head spin.

Lots of pesky horseflies here this year. Thankfully they fly slow and you get chance to swat them before they take a bite of flesh out. (about 2 seconds after they land).

Oh man, horsefly bites HURT!

Rumor has it that skunks are not very good the garden, I think I smelled one nearby recently.

Actually they're not necessarily bad for the garden. They might not make it a very sweet-smelling place to hang out, but they often do more good (eating grubs, mice, cutworms, beetles, grasshoppers, etc.) than harm (OK, they might also eat some of your veggies).

I still wouldn't want one in my garden, not a nice guy to surprise!

Something took a couple bites out of one of my vine ripe tomatoes

I've been told it sounds like a skunk, I have not seen one but I did smell something the other night.

With any luck it was one that got ran over with a belly full of tomato

The squirrels used to always run off with my GREEN tomatoes, they didn't even bother to let them get ripe!

Yes, they aren't subtle about it either. Like a blunt pin being rammed into your skin. Thankfully they fly really slow and often circle a few times before landing, giving the game away. When I see one I pause and wait for it to land on my arm/leg then whack it. There seems to be a plague of them this year, I'm especially wary when near the neighbours cattle. They must be getting bitten to death. The bites often carry infections too.

Here the bigger worry is the little ticks that carry Lyme disease. I found one on me the other day, and it had already latched on ... ugh, I hope it wasn't a carrier