Garden update: The weeds are doing as well as the intentional plants, but we are staying somewhat ahead. From the back of the picture... The corn is standing chest high in the back, then the potatoes, about hip high and flowering. We pulled up one of the potato plants this weekend and there were small golf ball sized tubers. Yeah. Next on the left are the beans, green and white. In the middle is still the chicken poop and harvested weeds and we pulled up the radishes and they are piled up there too, temporarily. Then on the right is the beets, just days away from harvest and canning. In front of all that on the left are flowering and poding peas (Maddie just weeded, Thank you Maddie), then some squash and cucumbers in the middle, and on the right are fingerling carrots, spinach and lettuce. Not seen are the tomatoes that are nicely flowering and onions that are thumb-sized.

OK, so I decided to plant more in some of the bare spots, and again closer to the chicken poop in the middle. Also tilled up the old radish area where I planed corn. I found another spot for more corn too. In front of the tomatoes I could not resist planting romaine lettuce. And I made 6 dirt mounds and planted watermelon, buttercup squash, big pumpkins and more cucumbers.

We are very pleased with the garden, and have found this a great opportunity (Thank you Brian and putting his garden spot on Craigslist) to reconnect with gardening that both Pat and I did throughout our childhood, and to pass on the gardening pleasures, yes, even weeding, onto Maddie and others.

So far, so good.