☺️It's planting time.

I love gardening.

 

I do all of my digging with my trusty shovel.

I think that I added a few more photos here that weren't in my first gardening post of this season.

The girls / chickens loves helping.  They even offer additional fertilizer while I dig.

The beets, garlic and white potato are strays that I threw in - leftover from store purchases.

The above will become fertilizer.  (I covered it after I finished digging.)

We found numerous earthworms.

Would a CHICKEN consider gardening?

 

 

Well, she looks as though she is curious about the shovel.

 

Guessing, she decided that bugs are more entertaining.

 

Broccoli - root failure here.

I planted several store-bought broccoli roots here. No broccoli materialized.

 

Hardy Winter vegetables.

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It's  G A R D E N  Season  Again

 

 

I finally got around to picking up my hoe, shovel, rake, and began the digging.

 

The beets, a small white potato or two, and the garlic somehow survived the Winter.

 

 

 I show you "before" and "after" photos to clarify the amount of work that was done solely by me. -and within three hours, this April 16, 2019.

 

 

The girls / chickens were in earthworm heaven during the digging.

 

There were so many earthworms. I think that the girls received a month's supply this one day.

 

 

 

About halfway through Plot 1. 

 

The grass was beautiful; but, had to go.

 

Oh the smell of fresh Earth.

 

 

After "Plot 1" was completed, I threw a few cabbage, carrot and sweet potato hulls in -that will be covered and become fertilizer.

 

...and, now to planting the bare areas - and then to Plot 2.

My Country Vegetable Garden Part 1

I did good, well, compared to last year. I planted my garden a few weeks earlier this year than I did last year.  I am one of those people whose schedule is so full that I sometimes must make time for the important things.

I hope to get the onion planted this week, provided I'm able to find them. (stashed them somewhere)

This weed reminded me of a corn plant; therefore, I allowed it to grow. (it's an early country life flashback, my grand-dad used to plant corn)

I planted a row and a half of lettuce. Only three survived despite constant watering. Blame it on the drought/lack of rain.

My chickens peck the turnips every chance they get. Don't know who's winning, them or the worms.

Sadly, this sweet pea has died since photoed three days ago. I watered and pampered, still didn't help.

The only surviving pea above is not doing well either.I planted an entire row. They didn't live last year either. Couldn't blame it on the chickens this year, they are fenced; and are only out when I allow them.

The sweet potatoes are growing from cut up sprouted potatoes that I had purchased to cook and eat.

I think that I saw on some cooking show that some cultures cook and eat the  leaves. I might look for one of those recipes and try that.(grew up with them and never knew that the leaves were edible) The things that we learn on todays' TV.

I would be totally shocked if these actually produce those round yellow balls before the Fall season.

I planted yellow squash and zuchinni. But these might be cucumbers.(I have a written layout, but didn't reference it for this posting. Oops)

This is the end of part 1 of my garden of 2010. Part 2 is coming shortly, with totally different photos.(but of the same garden)
Oops, I misspelled cantaloupe.