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Jenny asked who’s buried in our veggie garden.

I didn’t think I was ever going to get out into the backyard to prepare our home garden for vegetables but the rain carried right through April and then through May.

Couldn’t even walk close to the garden

Our yard and vegetable garden was just a big mud hole. Never seen it like that in the 5 years we’ve lived here. Lots of water in early spring but not this late.

I did eventually get out and dig up the garden and add a bit of compost and peatmoss. I even increased the width of our vegetable garden by another foot, with the assistance of my son.

Last week I sectioned the veggie garden into rows and pulled the dirt up so each row would have lots of loose dirt to expand their roots.

Levelled it all off and then decided the rows were too wide so I raked it all even again and re-spaced the rows. Jenny laughed and said they had been fine the first time.

Well messing around like that cost me day light and I had to leave the planting until the following day. Of course it rained and rained for the next three days.

Today the weather guy called for possible rain this afternoon so I was outside bright and early. It looked like it was going to start pouring any minute and it still looks like that but hasn’t rained yet.

Our little garden is planted now. Hope it’s not too late to still get great results. We did fine last year even though it was later.

Finished Planting Yesterday

I planted a lot of tomatoes from seed this year but they were still pretty tiny once they were in the garden.

The goal is to have enough tomatoes so we can try canning some.

I also planted a lot of Green Peppers and a few types of Hot/Sweet Peppers.

Lots of Peas and Beans. This year, once they get big enough I will stake them up so they can grow vertically. They got quite messy last year and crawled into everything else.

I wanted to grow corn and have the peas and beans climb the corn but our yard seems to be too wet for growing good corn. That or we did something wrong the last time we grew corn.

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