Sunday was a hard work day for me. Hubby helped early on to turn the soil in the garden and then I raked and set about planting all my enormous seedlings in the garden. Zucchini, summer squash, pickling cucumbers, regular cucumbers, green peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, brussel sprouts, peas and green and purple beans!
Betty asked me if we eat all the vegetables that we grow. Yes and no. We cook a lot of them, and we also preserve them by canning them. Our fruit trees yield so much more than we actually eat, so we sell what we can to a local farm stand. But the vegetables are pretty much just for us.
I did plant twice as many pickling cucumbers this year because I made bread and butter pickles last year and they were a real treat! I only made one batch, and they got eaten far too quickly! So I am hoping to make two or three batches this year!
I had a lot of help planting the garden too. Fritz stood guard, along with his favorite ball.
And I had Anneliese out with me so she could stretch her legs and enjoy the day. I did use a leash with her though, as I am a tad nervous with her in an impregnable condition!
All in all the six hours I spent, along with Hubby part of the time, planting were nice. The weather is warm, although it was a bit windy. I slathered on sunscreen and later in the day actually put on a light weight turtleneck to protect my shoulders and neck.
Sunday night found me watching the Family Channel’s Harry Potter Marathon. I never get tired of that! Monday is laundry, ironing and packing day, and Tuesday I finish up Anneliese’s paperwork by getting her documents stamped!
It’s getting very close now!
I brought my plants out in the garden – tomatoes, cucumber, sugar peas and green squash – about two weeks ago.
The past 7 days we had 5 thunderstorms and two with hail. Go figure how my garden looks like,…
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Thanks for answering my question. I guess you will be eating lots of veggies this summer! 🙂 Sounds good. I wish I had better soil on our property to plant vegetables, but with what we have I can´t plant anything in the ground.
I hope you get everything done, before you leave. I know you´ll be super busy.
We watched some of the Harry Potter movies too! Went over to Nan’s and got some Wicker furniture for the porch, it looks so nice out there now. My little window box veggie garden is doing well. I can’t wait to see what I get from that.
Today I have to get to the store and start cleaning out some junk to give to the church tag sale.
Wow! Garden looks great! Hope you get lots of beautiful veggies :o)
Glad to see that its all planted out, I will have to do my winter garden when i get back… But I am thinking of concentrating on flowers in the Rose garden out front… Shirley Poppies wil be in oorder I think!
darn it! I didn’t know there was a Harry Potter marathon!