Gardening news

Daddy cannot plant a garden because he is having a lot of back pain and his elbow is still not working really well. He used the tractor to till his garden and I told him I would be in charge of seeds and weeds if he did the watering. I planted his garden for him yesterday, including an entire package of golden bantam corn! plus scarlet nantes carrots, two kinds of bush beans, red mangle beets (these are for cattle fodder), jackolantern pumpkins, spaghetti squash, and blue, acorn, and fairy winter squashes; zucchini, patty pan squash, pickles and dill, two kinds of slicing cukes, lemon cukes, sunflowers, zinnias, marigolds, basil, and along the fence blue lake pole beans and red noodle pole beans (these are new to me, they are an asian bean that should get 18" long and be crimson colored, just something fun). I forgot to bring up the white onion starts I have but I will bring them up this weekend and plant between the mangle beet rows to help keep the root weevils away. Good companion planting there, no pesticides necessary that way.

I will put in tomato plants and lettuce in his raised boxes later. Today I will plant my beans and corn, put in my cuke plants. I am going to wait a bit to put out the tomato and pepper plants for me too. I shall also plant some beans in containers for Trisha's garden.

This weekend I will head up to Jena Mikal's house. She has brought in soil for a small garden spot next to the house, between the house and the pond. She has seeds and the kids will probably plant the garden for her. Her knee is getting better. She can at least bend it now, but I think it would better not to push it. If the kids don't get it planted or if she doesn't have seeds she wants, I will bring up my seeds and plant the rest for her.

Isn't gardening so fun! So many gardens, so little time.