Whew, lordy, I'm tired.
But, with the help of Nanny and The Husband, there was progress in the garden today.
Last night, I made The Husband agree to help me put up a fence for the tomatoes today. After work, I hurried home and went straight to the garden, intending to plant okra, squash, and cucumbers. All the rain has made the garden GRASSY, so I got out the tiller. The ground was a tad too wet for tilling, but I did it, anyway. Tilled up three rows, thinking it would help dry the soil enough that, if it doesn't rain before I get home tomorrow, I'd run the plow one more time and get those seeds in the ground. I left a wide grassy spot where I intended to plant tomatoes, thinking the tractor tiller was still attached to the tractor and The Husband could easily till it before we set the fence posts.
After I finished my tilling, I chopped grass in the purple hull pea rows. (Those peas look pitiful. They came up sparsely and have been too wet.) Nanny came out to help. We both chopped until we gave out, 3/4s of the way down our respective rows. I hunted up a chair under a shade tree, drank some water, cooled off, rested a minute. About that time, The Husband showed up in his gardening clothes.
The tractor tiller wasn't attached to the tractor; the bushhog was still on it. Taking the bushhog off and putting the tiller on (or plowing with the garden tiller) would have eaten up the better part of our work time. Yet, it didn't make sense to put up the fence in all that grass and then try to till around it with the garden tiller. I BY GOLLY WANTED THAT FENCE UP TODAY, so I made an on-the-spot decision to put the fence up in the rows I'd prepared for the squash, okra, and cucumbers.
By the time we finished with the tomato fencing, I got a second wind. I had not intended to plant the tomatoes today, but it may rain tonight, which will screw up my plans. When I said, "Let's plant the tomatoes," surprisingly The Husband said, "Okay" without any lip. And we planted them.
We also put up a short fence for the cucumbers, as Nanny has been having a fit to grow some on a fence. I had seeds in my apron pocket, so I planted cucumber seeds beside it.
While I was digging, I planted a few hills of squash at the end of one tomato row. Those seeds are so old they might not come up. I'll plant more when I get more seeds.
If it does rain tonight or tomorrow, the okra will just have to wait.
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