FINALLY!
Yippee!!!!
We finally had a decent day and warm temperatures. As I type this, the swimming pool is filling up. I've round-upped the middle 1/3 of the garden. I helped de-weed the lower 1/3 with the aid of a hoe and an electric rototiller.
My neighbor returned the tiller this afternoon. I don't think she quite knows what to make of me. She got a funny look on her face (like the "is this guy for reals?" look) when I asked her what extra we could plant in the garden that we could share with her and her family.
When you have this much room, planting an extra ten feet of this or that isn't a real expense or chore. We buy seed by the half-pound. We have to. After the initial shock and me explaining to her that we plant more than enough to share, she gave me a little list of things. OK, we plant those things anyway, so we'll plant some extra.
I'm kind of excited for the garden this year. I think we're going to try some different things than what we've done in the past. It's difficult to water this thing. There just isn't a decent way to do it. We'll have to see what we can come up with, but I'm thinking flat might be better than furrow. It might actually hold the water better.
I'm going to read up on French gardening and maybe try that in some zones. Some zones are just going to get planted in corn and hopefully we'll have corn this year. Last year, we planted 500 seeds and not one ear of corn was to be had.
It's days like this that make me wish I was retired. I could play out in the yard all afternoon, grill up something, and just relax in the yard.
Well, I can dream.
Duty calls.
We finally had a decent day and warm temperatures. As I type this, the swimming pool is filling up. I've round-upped the middle 1/3 of the garden. I helped de-weed the lower 1/3 with the aid of a hoe and an electric rototiller.
My neighbor returned the tiller this afternoon. I don't think she quite knows what to make of me. She got a funny look on her face (like the "is this guy for reals?" look) when I asked her what extra we could plant in the garden that we could share with her and her family.
When you have this much room, planting an extra ten feet of this or that isn't a real expense or chore. We buy seed by the half-pound. We have to. After the initial shock and me explaining to her that we plant more than enough to share, she gave me a little list of things. OK, we plant those things anyway, so we'll plant some extra.
I'm kind of excited for the garden this year. I think we're going to try some different things than what we've done in the past. It's difficult to water this thing. There just isn't a decent way to do it. We'll have to see what we can come up with, but I'm thinking flat might be better than furrow. It might actually hold the water better.
I'm going to read up on French gardening and maybe try that in some zones. Some zones are just going to get planted in corn and hopefully we'll have corn this year. Last year, we planted 500 seeds and not one ear of corn was to be had.
It's days like this that make me wish I was retired. I could play out in the yard all afternoon, grill up something, and just relax in the yard.
Well, I can dream.
Duty calls.
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