Mud, Mud, Go Away!

I don't think the carrots, collards, peas or spinach are going to make it.
I think that they drowned.
After days upon days of rain, I can only see mud.
I think I will try again, while it is still cool.
I have never had luck with the early spring stuff, or the fall stuff, and for some reason I thought this year would be different.

Himself, informed me that the tiller is still broken, and I am hoping that he works on it this weekend so we can get the bigger stuff in the ground.

Hopefully, I won't slip and fall in the mud as I go into the bee hives tomorrow!

Sweat Equity

I don't think anyone really expected the heat that came on Saturday. Maybe it's going to take me some getting used to but I was absolutely miserable!

I felt suffocated it was so hot.

My friend Carol had a beautiful Belmont Stakes Party at her house with a whole Pig and fabulous sides, and a delightful drink called a Belmont Breeze. I don't know all that was in it, but it was very punchy and fruity not too sweet, and the moment I felt as if the drink was going to my head, I prespired the very thought out of my mind.

After allllllllll of the rain we have had the garden plants didn't know what to do with themselves on Saturday either.
Once Sunday morning arrived the poor Brussell Sprouts were wilted, and droopy. They looked like they wanted a drink of water, but the ground had more than adequate moisture.
Thankfully, the temperature didn't feel quite as hot on Sunday as Saturday's oppression, and by day's end they looked like they felt much better.

I did have lots of weeding to do. As I mentioned last week, when I stepped in to pull a weed my foot sunk in almost to my knee!

I went through with the hoe and cultivated everything and it looks once again like a cared for garden. I am having some concerns for the leeks however, I think the rain was too hard on them as they were all fallen over and looking pretty sad. I took dirt and propped around them, and now today they look a little better.

I still have to cut the grass, as I have been cutting at it, and have yet to complete it.

It's just toooo darn hot.

Maybe after the sun goes down tonight I wack at it some more.

I So Totally Caved In :(

So after eons of rain, sinking to my knees in my fabulously tilled earth, diligently picking and squishing worms & eggs I find on the Brussel Sprouts, and those pesky little flea beetles that have set up a small country on the Baby Eggplants; I found that I was fighting a loosing battle.

I sprinkled Sevin Dust on them...

I'm an organic failure!

I'm so disappointed in myself.

I'm sorry to my faithfull readers who I know were pulling for me every step of the organic way.

I was simply at wit's end and even with the suggestions from Swampy, my neighbor caught me at a week moment and waived the bag of Sevin in front of me and told how simple it would be, and I So Totally Caved :(