Jen Gallacher

Planting the Garden

After 17 years, we are FINALLY planting the vegetable garden. Funny how I've forgotten so many things about it from when I was a child. (I think I'm mentally blocking it out because I HATED weeding the garden.) My kids were so excited they actually shook with excitement and argued over who got to do what. Now if only every chore was like that! LOL!

Because we aren't past our frost season yet, we only planted our potatoes, our peas, and our onions. Some time in May we'll add our vines: pumpkins, squash, tomatoes and peppers. I'm still debating about carrots. I'm kind of a carrot fiend and so is Katelyn so perhaps we should. And then definitely sweet corn. YUMMY!!

First we raked the garden that Brett tilled on Saturday:

And then we planted Peas:

Here are the prepared seed potatoes:

And here are the onions (red and yellow) in their bag:

Here are the kids planting the onions:

And here are the little onions waiting to be covered and watered.

And despite some minor disagreements from the hubby and I, we DID IT!! I'm so happy. It's helping me with my "lift the stress" goals to have this done until after May begins!