The Big Garden

Other than his colorful shirt ...
this guy has nothing to do with gardening.

This guy is really proud of his restored John Deere tractor.

This is what is actually being used to plow the garden.
I'm still uncertain as to which are rows and which are the spots the tractor wheels are supposed to go ...

This is called planting the seeds ...
That's 2 partial rows of potatoes on the left.
This all happened between 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Makes you wonder what happened with the rest of the day?

Light Rain Showers

It's been raining steadily since noon yesterday. The rain thundered down during the night and had a period this morning where it hammered down in bucketloads. Although there is talk of it backing off and becoming just scattered rain showers ... the band of rain extends westward halfway through Louisiana and southwest below Corpus Christi, TX to Mexico. There could be several days of this.

Does this mean it is time to start planting???
Kat bought a bunch of seeds at Dollar General for 20 cents a packet. We bought 50 assorted packets: 2 varieties of cucumber, Detroit dark red beets, turnip greens, collards, spinach, black seeded Simpson & parris island lettuce, dill, french & early scarlet radishes, black beauty eggplant, golden wax bean, Burpee stringless bean, henderson's lima bean, danvers & nantes carrots, and zuchinni. We'll use some and "can" the others for preservation for future emergency usage.

Garden - Not Yet

I was looking at a blog in SoCal ... and they were already showing tomatoes that they harvested from their garden just last week!
Some from a volunteer plant that grew on its own ...
So, I decided to step out side and see
what was volunteering in my garden ...
Doesn't look too good from this angle ...

I don't think it looks any better from this angle either ...

So I finally pulled out all the grass and dead plants ...
raked the two garden plots ...
and all of that stuff ended up in a kind of brown compost pile,
way back behind that tree.
And I was bit by several fire ants while wearing my crocs (and no socks) to work on the garden.