GardenDesk

Harvesting Broccoli and Lettuce and Movie Monday for Memorial Day!

Happy Memorial Day! My family and I got to go to the lake fishing and boating yesterday, so today will be spent working in the yard and garden. I'm hoping to plant corn and beans today (better late than never!) The peas are beginning to form and I will be harvesting more lettuce and a lot of broccoli.

You can see more of the broccoli and all of the beds that are planted already in the below Movie Monday Video. Most things are still small, but much bigger than my last Movie Monday. Enjoy a quick tour!

Have a great holiday and a fantastic week!

-Marc

Wet Chickens and a Soaked Garden on this Movie Monday

This is already the wettest April on record so far in our area. Officially they are calling it 11.5 inches of rainfall for the month and more than half of it came this weekend! We had flash flooding in places that has never flooded before. This is my neighbors driveway.

It is usually a bridge with a small creek going through a few pipes under the bridge.

At least we are up on a hill and the garden is sloped, so the only flooding we personally have had is water in the basement and standing water in the chicken coop.

I'll show you the wet chickens and a quick tour of the garden in this installment of Movie Monday.

It is supposed to keep raining all week! Of course I'm worried that we are getting the whole season's rainfall now and will face a drought this summer. Such is weather and gardening, I suppose.

Happy Monday.

-Marc