I'm still planning a fall garden! The hay on the garden experiment has been a grand success. We aren't battling a weed patch. The pumpkins are not laying in the dirt but on top of "clean" hay. So we can just pull back the straw and plant seeds for our fall garden.

Winning over weeds! August Garden Update

August 7, 2015GardenKim Brush5 Comments

Usually by this time of year the weeds have won over my efforts in the garden. I am so thankful that the job of pulling weeds has been almost eliminated by the deep mulch of the hay we are using to cover the garden!

Quick growing cucumbers win the sprint in the Square Foot Garden!

July 16, 2015GardenKim BrushComment

By July plants are beginning to produce! We've been watching the race between the cherry tomatoes & cucumbers on our trellis. Eating from the garden is the reward for the work of planting. Waiting anxiously for the beets, peppers, carrots & tomatoes to be ready! Love my square foot gardens!

Can it please be summer yet? Garden Update

June 30, 2015GardenKim BrushComment

I’m not sure it’s ever going to feel like summer. So much rain makes it feel like spring.

The last storm brought 5 inches in a couple of hours. We had a river flowing across the driveway. We are so glad that we laid more gravel in the spring for a smoother drive & no more moat.

Plants in the ground & water all around

June 1, 2015GardenKim BrushComment

Well I was going to share how my garden was doing today. I seriously considered not doing that because it is really been an yucky week.

10 Days Ago

Hay in place and ground is ready for plants!

The deep mulch of hay on the garden to keep the weeds from getting out of hand was in place. We were ready to plant tomatoes & peppers! I got most of them in the ground. I knew it was going to rain so that seemed like a great thing to have gotten done!

And then it started raining . . . .and it really never stopped.

This weekend

See my sad little tomato plants?  They don't like their feet so wet. — See my sad little tomato plants? They don't like their feet so wet.

I started to dig canals to direct the water away from the plants.

Did I mention I planted 30 tomato plants???

Yeah I ran out of steam before I was done. Steve helped and then Joshua helped to finish it up.

I think he actually had a blast playing in the mud.

Plants in the Ground & water all around! - DaytoDayAdventures.com

So far this week things are drying out! I can't wait to see some sunshine again and be able to plant the rest of the plants & seeds for our Garden Plan for 2015.

**Update on August 1** The canals saved the tomatoes! We have green plants and lots of little green tomatoes. I think we are 2-3 weeks behind "schedule" which means the harvest is coming! I'm just glad the plants survived the "flood"

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