Gardening

Today was a work day in our garden. We had previously planted potatoes, beans, corn, lettuce, and onions and all of that is coming up great. Unfortunately, the weeds had come up great too. Not only in the rows that we had planted, but in the other part of the garden where we were going to finish planting. That part looked like the lawn! So, I spent hours getting reacquainted with the tiller. After 3 hours of tilling we were finally ready to finish planting. The girls finished the weeding between the plants that we had planted while I started to plant the cucumbers, tomatoes, pepper, squash, carrots, and watermelon. My two youngest decided to "water" the plants I had planted. This turned into a big play time with the hose followed up by huge mud pies and them being covered in mud from head to toe. Unfortunately I was to busy to find my camera and take their pics. At least they enjoyed the garden work. :) My oldest was miserable due to her allergies acting up and also she does not really enjoy gardening. She still is a good helper though. She was a trooper today, especially with her nasty allergies making her miserable. So we finished the planting, fertilizing, roping off the garden and now we are all tired and ready for bed. My son was spending the night at a friends house so he got out of the work for now. He will make up for it when the weeding resumes. :) Now all our work is done and the garden looks good. Now if only we can keep those pesky deer out of it this year we will be doing something. Now I am off to bed. Goodnight!