The Garden Spade

For whatever reason, this morning I felt my green thumb(or lack thereof) coming to life.
After doing my morning chores, I donned my boots and coveralls and grabbed a spade and shovel.

Here's the beaut'

Overrun with weeds and grass and wild tomato plants, and possibly even a wild bunny or two.
I haven't even touched this garden in maybe five months.
Mind you, it's been a rough year(for gardens and otherwise) so this project just got lay by the wayside.

Wonderful, eh?

So I shoveled and pulled and yanked and finally, finally got somewhere.

Look at that beautiful fertile soil!

So after pulling all the weeds and rotten tomatoes and potatoes out, I grabbed my shovel,

(My shovel)

And went to the manure pile,

(my manure pile)

And went to scooping manure from pile to garden.

2,224 scoops later, all I had to do was till it all in.

Chop chop.

This is the(sort of) finished product. Throughout the winter and spring I will till it up and add more manure into it to make fertile, soft, black soil.
I can almost taste the green peppers and potatoes, and tomatoes and onions and mm mm mm!! I can't wait til spring!!

But speaking of onions, I found a few left in the garden. So I plucked away and was so happy with myself.

Look at those! They're beautiful!!

So I put them in a big bowl filled with water and started washing.
But to my total dismay, upon further examination, they were all contaminated with little bitty bugs!!
So now, these poor, probably delicious onions are being eaten by my chickens.

And I wanted to eat those, too!!


Anyways, how's your day?