It was plowing day today - oh what fun! It finally dried up enough here to plow the garden without having a mud cake mess. Nothing like having a good ol' country boy driving a John Deere tractor around your yard tilling half way to China. I love having a garden space where you are forced to wear tall boots to work in it...step into the garden and dirt comes 9" up your leg {I LOVE DIRT}! After the plowing was done, I had the wonderful privilege of hauling 320 lbs. of bagged compost to be spread in the garden along with a good helping of cow manure and chicken poop...it was smelling RIPE in the backyard today!
As you can see in the pic, there is one lonely garlic bed hoping to have some friends soon. I did actually threaten the good ol' country boy to not hit the garlic bed...I've been nursing that garlic for months now and so far so good! I went to {beautiful} Reynolda Gardens yesterday to check on their garlic to do a little comparison. I fully expected to be so disappointed and unworthy when comparing their professionally grown garlic to mine but luck was on my side and looked very similar in size, color, leaves, etc. So all is well in my garlic world.
Anyway, more work on the 528 square foot garden tomorrow - corn and potatoes going in. Earlier this week, Coco planted a small strawberry patch and when I checked on it this morning, a pesky ground squirrel had dug under one of the plants so I had to do a bit of repair work - if it happens again, I guess I'll have to sleep out there for the next two months to make sure those little varmints don't tear it up! Also, we are waiting on pole beans and lima beans to sprout - so exciting! Yep, I'm not joking around here...my goal is to grow 90% of the produce my family eats. On second thought - what was I thinking?!?
P.S. On the agenda for the next several months - weeding, weeding, weeding, and more weeding. Like every day...for real.
image courtesy of me
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