The Garden June 17th

We have received so much out of this garden already, my wife has planted second crops in many places.

Before and after bathroom

Sometimes when I am running out of steam, I like to look at before and afters just to get a shot in the arm and keep going. Here is one of the bathroom. :)

A little light rain today

We made it through this storm today. Spent a bit of it in the basement however. It is hard to see from the picture but the street was flooded and that is hail splashing in the water. It was almost golf ball size. The garden came through ok. The corn leaned a little to the west as this great big east wind whipped it pretty good. The nets covering the berries had a few buckets of hail in them.

Garden Progress

I love watching the progress of the garden. If you click on the above photo you can see the garden grow in detail.

Dan Quayle's

Today we took a few of the Potatoes out of the garden. Whenever I see potatoes I remember Dan Quayle's moment of embarrassment. William Figueroa a 12 year old knew how to spell "Potato" even though the VP insisted on adding an "e" to the end. I have never missed spelled potatoe since! I am sure there are many mistakes that I have typed on this blog, so knowing how to spell potato isn't that big of an accomplishment.

Free Privot Hedges

Yesterday on Craigslist, I saw an ad for "Free Privot Hedges." So I ran over and grabbed these hedges that were planted 30 years ago. The picture above is not them but what we hope to have because of what we palnted.

I palnted a total of 17 plants around the house. A set of them on each side to block the view of the neighbors and at the back of the garden to block the North wind.

There was a time consideration as I planted them, because the roots needed to stay wet and each hole took forever as the ground is nothing but rock around here. After I dug each hole I filled it up with water and stuck the plant in the for a few hours. Then using compost and top soil I back filled the hole. I am hoping this all works and I just didn't spend all day digging holes for nothing. If we see new growth soon we will know the answer.