Month: February 2008

Well, time for me to turn over a new leaf. The veggie members of my family have seed catalogues spread all over the kitchen table. DD&Dsil are getting half the garden plot for their own use and my Dh is starting to think spring. They are all thinking about ground breaking events. My farmer never got the tracter and cultivater thru the ground to prepare our Red River Gumbo for spring planting. He is thinking he needs to buy a small rotto tiller. Dsil says in Columbia they have no such machine. They dig by hand. Dh says have at it! He’ll babysit the new grandson! LOL

Now Dh has been adding lots of composted sheep manure to the garden and he has high hopes for the coming year. I hope they include raised beds. I say forget the gumbo and get into those nice boxes I’ve observed on this site. We really should fence it as well! The kids still talk about the day we came home from church and thought, “gee, something looks different!” Yup, the garden was gone! The sheep had got out. A neighbour saw them and put them back in before we got home but after they had demolished the veggies! 🙁