this morning my MIL informed me that she was going to plant some vegetables. in the past she has typically grown a garden but just didn't make room for one this year. well, susy came along and kinda interrupted those plans. she doesn't want me to spend the money on the organic food at the store, so we're going to grow our own. well, i've wanted to do that for a long time; i just never knew quite where to begin. unfortunately, i didn't inherit my mother's green thumb, and i wasn't sure quite where to plant stuff out here. leave it to the the green queen (aka, the MIL) to find a place. her flower gardens are all on 'virgin' soil, so she said it'd be a great place for the vegetables. so we planted some zucchini, squash, and different kinds of peppers in the same area as the flowers. next year, we can designate a spot for just vegetables and do even more. for now, this will do. spring is planting season, but i think these will do just fine even though it's already summer.
so to the manure - well, because i'm 'freak-o' about fertilizers and all the crazy chemicals in the foods we eat, i'm going back to all organic. believe me - if you knew what i know, you would do it too. but anyway, the MIL said where she'd used horse manure (no, not straight from the horse), the plants, flowers, trees, etc. did much better. well, wouldn't you know it?! Father God intended for mother nature to take care of itself...and she does. there were areas that she still wanted to fill with the manure, so off we go to fill the gator with the manure.
yes, there i was on a mountain of horse manure, shoveling it into the gator. who ever would have thought that i could enjoy myself so much with a shovel and some horse dung?! you should try it sometime.
here we are on the gator
this is one of the zucchini plants
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