Like I always say ...

Life gets in the way of good intention. Things have been real hectic round here as of late both good and bad.

But things are progressing for the best and I’ll try to get back on track and post more regularly.

You come back now, you hear.

Never sprinkle Viagra on your vegatable garden

Due to the rain we forgot about the garden and when things started to dry out 

the kids picked these monster cucumbers. The smallest one was about 9 inches.

Update on the Vegetable Garden

What's growing in the garden

Redefining baby potatoes

Harvesting potatoes

Even George helped out

Our first Watermelon

I guess we'll be having potatoes and eggs for lunch tomorrow

and the next day and the next 

Another day in the life

Garden update

Tomatoes 

Watermelon

Corn

Sugar Snap peas

Cucumbers

Beats

We had a late start on the garden due to a cold snap that hit the region plus Echo and I going away to New York for 6 weeks didn’t help. This left our first attempt at gardening in a new climate zone on Judith and the kids.

All and all they did a great job without the help of us burly men being around.  Hopefully, Echo and I will be putting up the fence around the garden within the next month or two.

The projects never end.

Getting the garden started

A while a go we got some seeds started in the house.
Trying to catch up on all the photos.
So many fun things going on!



Silas' self-guided garden complete with wild onion he collects in the woods,
lettuce stumps from the compost and even an old onion
and sweet potato (no sprouting thanks bud nip)



Silas



Getting a little direction on tray filling









These seeds are soooo tiny! Tweezers help.



Make the hole with the pencil





Group project of course





Emerson determined to be included



Tweezers are so difficult to control



Okay, just use those sticky fingers!

No, leaf me alone

So the boys and I decided that the best way to enrich the garden soil, was to collect leaf litter from the dry creek bed.  Not because its the best but because it was probably the cheapest, easiest solution to our poor soil issues.

I was able to get poison ivy for the 6th time in 11 months just to keep myself busy on my down time. We worked hard and had to carry the tub of leaves by hand since I couldn't get the bead to catch on the flat tire on the wheel barrow.

Loving manual labor! We all fell down exhausted and thanked God that was over. All 9 beds leafed and we did it together.

We're a great team.

Always have time to stop for a flower

Wait ... we're not stomping grapes!

One tub of leaves per bed

Lunch break

Mixing the leaves in

All done! ... sort of.  Now we just need to add vegetables.

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