Yesterday, the weather forecasters were predicting rain for our area, expecting it to arrive mid-afternoon. Our garden had been tilled, but we'd not had a chance to build up any rows.
We got busy fairly early yesterday morning to get ahead of the rain. Uncle Jack loaned us his "hiller" attachment for the tractor. We ran the tiller over the garden again, then used the hiller to build up the rows.
My main goal was to get the garden center plants - tomatoes and peppers - in the ground. They'd been living in our front yard for more than a week. We planted the tomatoes and peppers, then I decided we might as well go ahead and plant the purple hull pea seeds. While The Husband was planting those, I planted the squash and cucumbers. He ran out of pea seeds before he got all of the pea rows planted. For some reason, we did not plant the okra and zucchini seeds. I guess we just ran out of energy.
The rain held off until about 8 p.m., and boy did it ever rain. We'll probably need to re-cover the seeds once the ground dries up enough for us to move around in the garden. And I'll need to go back to the garden center for more purple hull pea seeds.
We still have a couple of rows left over for some other vegetables. I think we'll try butter peas this year, which we've had some success with in the past.
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