Our Garden

Once again, having a garden has caused a controversy at our home. Robert must have some repressed horrible gardening memories, because he has fought me constantly about having one. In Colorado, I borrowed a rototiller and got a garden spot all ready. I even separated it from the rest of what was going to be our lawn with railroad ties. Robert took those out and put grass on the whole lawn- on purpose! In Texas, we were going to move too soon and have to sell the house and no one liked a house with a garden spot (what??) In Virginia, obviously we had no backyard to speak of. Here, we are only renting the house and no we can't just do a small spot and throw grass seed out when we leave. So I went and rented a spot. He threw a fit about that! But it was only $10 for the year and the water is fairly easy to get up to the spot, so now he can only complain about the drive and how much gas is. He refused to help us at all, so here is Sam, Max and I digging up our spot. They had rototilled it once, but we had waited too long. I don't think the soil is the best, either. So we used a shovel and a bunch of rakes and took 2 hours to get 2/3 of it done. We left the rest, but we don't have our beans and peas and zucchini planted, so if we want those done we will have to go do the rest. It was a lot of work, but Sam really wanted to garden and he helped the whole time. Max wasn't the best helper in the world, but he picked grass out and tried to rake for us. He also was a good carrier and planter. Sam called the planting, "the fun stuff!" I hope we get some produce out of this! We got 9 tomato plants and 1 jalapeno plant free from the University of Ohio extension. We also planted corn and cantaloupe and a watermelon.