Country Living, Having More...

And row two is: peas, carrots and rutabagas. Can anyone spell "rutabagas"? (I had to check the package).

Here goes row one of two that we planted this afternoon: lettuce, spinach and swiss chard...

So now we had to make the actual rows, to show where we'd be planting each vegetable. The rows make a lot easier to picture the spacing for the garden. This is starting to get to be fun :)

So the next part in planting the potatoes is, "layering in the compost". We took bails of compost from our heap and the end of the row and I'd fill up a bucket and Papa would layer it...over and over again, until we were done.

Today Papa went to get us a boat load of compost. Later, he went out to the garden to dig a two-foot trench where the potatoes are going to go. If I understood it correctly, a combination of the potatoes, dirt and compost will go there.

Good job, Papa!

On this day we were out planting our first outdoor section of our garden. This section, the first row, included shallots, onions (red and yellow) and my favorite: (you guessed it!) garlic!
Papa plowed the first part of the row, I finished it and then he had me start planting the garlic in the ground. Our little angel was also there and watched as we got things started. There is so much more to come as you can see the size of this monstruous (country) garden! -The Farmer's Assistant.

I think that you could say, that the picture speaks for itself. Over the last month Papa has worked hard getting things ready for our country garden and now it's time to grow. We've since had to ground plowed up, Papa has carefully nurtured some twenty plus different vegetables (in doors) and we're ready to grow! Take a look.