A Time To Sow

Finally, it is time to plant. Well after five hours of turning manure and compost into the beds it is time to plant. I'm sore but not broken. After the shovel work I took April's advice, showered, made myself an aggressive margarita and then retired to the hammock. I lay in the hammock and listened to a really cool episode of Radio Lab on NPR and then nodded off for a good nap.

April planted our six tomato plants. We got them on Thursday via UPS. It is a little strange to get vegetable plants in a cardboard box:


But the pepper and mato plants are healthy and we have had fabulous luck with these in the past:



As usual, I had lots of help from our chickens when I was turning soil. They just love the worms. Last week they came up the back stairs probably because they thought I could get them some more worms.


I'll upload some more pictures tomorrow after we finish planting seeds and I start in on the potato patch and the corn in the space between the sidewalk and the curb. Well have to get some more chicken wire tomorrow to keep the chickens out of where we plant seeds lest they scratch them all up.

Great weather. Great weekend.