OMG those damned mimosa thingies

So, it has been a couple weeks since I have actually set foot in the garden.  My faithful dad has been watering regularly since we have no rain for a while now.  I open the gate, and the first thing that greets me is a 2 ft wall of those wild, crazy mimosa looking ferny weed things.  I don't know if they are actually mimosa plants, but they look like them, and the grow like CRAZY!  Anyway, I had to rip them out just to be able to set foot in the garden.  Not a good sign.
I make my way immediately to the back to check on the grape tomatoes as I can see flashes of red back there.  I think I need a machete.  Whack, whack, pull, rip as I plod back to the tomatoes and melons.  Surprise - tons of old yellow tomatoes.  Still lots of grape tomatoes growing, and lo and behold, a fresh batch of long beans!  Too bad there is an ant the size of my pinky fingernail poised at the top of each and every bean.  No, really, there is an ant on each mature bean.  I totally didn't get it.  But I wanted the beans and not to be bit, so thus began a weird game of "flick the ant". Flick flick flick, snip snip snip.
Then more ripping and pulling of whatever those weed trees are to be able to see the melon patch.  2 melons growing.  :)
Clipped a few eggplants, banana peppers, and another large dose of sweet potato leaves.
Its nice to know that even though I've been ignoring you for a few weeks, sweet garden, that you still grow food along with those weeds.  Thank you.
Tonight for dinner - slow poached chicken with scallion oil and ginger with long beans cooked with fermented black beans and garlic and sweet potato leaves sauteed with ginger and sesame oil.  :)
And now it is finally raining outside.  Keep on growing, baby, 'cause we're still hungry!