Sort Of

We finally got in the vegetable garden......sort of.

We knew the rain was coming, and after five days of sun and wind we thought it certainly must be dry. And it was...sort of...only not so much.

We couldn't get started 'til later in the evening because we had to wait 'til the husband got home to till the garden. And he got home early....sort of.

Then we hit it hard....sort of....because it's so difficult to move quickly when you're trying to include two 3 year olds and keep the dog out of your way.

We managed to mud-in the potatoes, half of the Indian Corn, most of the popcorn, a row of radishes, and most of the onions before it got too dark and before I lost most of my patience.  It was more stressful than I would have liked. I prefer planting the garden on a weekend afternoon in the sun with everybody helping. But we have SO MUCH left to plant, and after getting SO MUCH rain over the past 3 days, it will be awhile before get back in there to finish it.

But even with wet-garden-woes, we've still had the joy of harvesting now that our asparagus is ready. The kids, who ate the stuff last year, are a bit uncertain about eating it this year, but still love helping to pick it.

And we've added to my mental list of gardening goals for this year:  Keep the tent worms from destroying the apple tree again.

She survived and came back this year, however tentatively. As we admired all the apple blossoms, the kids asked me where "all the bugs are" because they actually thought those disgusting fuzzy worm things were fun to watch. I informed them that we are going to kill them as soon as we see them this year. With what, I'm not sure. I think I have a recipe for some homemade tent worm concoction around here. If you've got any tips, I'll gladly take them.

Then, if the leaves survive the worms and we actually get apples this year, we will have to try to keep the deer away from the apples.

When we are successful with that, I will then attempt to convince my husband that we need some more apple trees, which he would have no objection to except that we hate creating mowing obstacles.

We really do need as many apples as we can possible get because we've got an applesauce making tradition in the works here. It was just so much fun last year.

And now that I finally have the timing of KinderGARDENS figured out - sort of - I will actually link up this week with this serious over at The Inadvertent Farmer.

My first post in the series that didn't quite meet the Mr. Linky deadline is HERE.