When Tillage Begins...

The garden was tilled and we were waiting to plant after some rains moved through. However, after surveying the situation Saturday during Clark's birthday party, the garden was deemed suitable for planting. We partied it up the rest of the day Saturday, e.g. ate cake and took naps. Sunday afternoon the fun began. We had a guy bring a tractor out to till the garden earlier in the spring. Since then it had gotten beaten down by rain. So, we started Sunday by busting out the DR tiller and turning the earth a second time.

Alan hit the north end next to the fence and we got a row of peas in. He proceeded to till up the west third of the garden when a slight problem ocurred. The belt on the tiller went out.

We had enough tilled to start planting potatoes, but now we had to hill them by hand. Unbelievable, by hand?! Somehow we managed to get six 30' rows of potatoes in by hand. Well, with garden rakes in our hands. It was amazing we managed to accomplish such an insurmountable task. Let the planting begin!