Yay for future food!

At long last our vegetable garden is IN. Brian helped me plant it all this morning, and I'm inordinately pleased with everything. We planted very late this year because Rick, our tractor, and tools have been spending most of the nice weather this spring at my MIL's house. Rick finally got the composted manure tilled in Sunday, and brought our rake and shovels home yesterday. In anticipation, I loaded up on tomato, pepper, and squash plants (half of them were fundraisers for Brian's youth group), plus bush bean and carrot seeds to go with the seeds and plants I already had.

To help me remember, there are two hills of Sumter cucumbers, three hills of Tendergreen cucumbers, one hill of Blacktail Mountain watermelon, two hills of Early Prolific Straightneck (yellow) squash, one row of Tendergreen Improved beans, one row of Royal Burgundy beans, one row of Scarlet Nantes Coreless carrots, one row of Rainbow Blend carrots (Brian's request), two green bell peppers, one jalapeño pepper, three unidentified little peppers-I-think, two tiny eggplants-I-think, one hill of Blue Hubbard squash, one hill of Sweet Delight squash, one hill of zucchini, one hill of some kind of round Mexican summer squash, two wee sage plants, two spinach-I-think plants, four brassicas of some kind, and FIFTEEN tomato plants – two Champion II, a Better Boy, a Super Sweet 100, a Pineapple (heirloom), a Rainbow (heirloom), a Mortgage Lifter (heirloom) an Arkansas Traveler (heirloom), an OSU cool-night variety, and six tiny mysteries. All the unknowns are leftover starts from our church's community garden that were given to me; I had room so why not give them a chance? After all, the more we can grow, the more we save on our grocery bill. Let the watering begin! (It already has.)

"Inch by inch, and row by row, Jesus bless the seeds I sow.

Jesus warm them from below, 'til the rain comes tumbling down."

Amen.