Our 2 week early spring vacation has sadly come to an end. (pictures included) Our first week was spent preparing; tilling, fertilizing, fixing fence line and all things needed to get down to the nitty gritty of actually putting little plants and seeds in the ground. There were several small side trips along the way. A day at the Houston Temple was my favorite. Our second week Jimbo planted 60 tomato plants and 24 pepper plants. He then plowed the pea patch and sprayed for weeds. Finally he hooked up his 30 year old plus planter and filled it with peas and fertilizer and down the rows he went. I think there are around 60 rows of peas. Also 4 long rows of potatoes. We already have 3 full pages of orders and those are only the ones Jimbo has remembered to tell me about. WOW, these vacations sure can wear you out!!

Now I have been assigned a new job. I am on CROW PATROL. This job consists of watching the garden in the front and the pea patch in the back. If any crows are detected I am to either go out and scare them away (does this make me a scarecrow?) or use Jimbo's 22 rife and shoot at them. Does the fun never end? It reminds me of a shooting gallery, by the time you are focused for a shot the crows have flown off. I can picture them sitting in the trees, pointing and laughing at my bad shot. I'll give updates when I have them.

The onions are planted and have survived a few hard freezes. The deer broke the hot wire fence around the garden and pulled out one of the onions then dropped it back on the ground. I'm not sure if that's some kind of omen or he just didn't like onions. Seems like neither weather nor deer will be a threat . Thank goodness, I'm not sure how many onions we have to spare:)

Well Jimbo and I don't know what a blog is but here we are anyway. Hi from farmer Jimbo and his dutiful wife and pea sheller Wendy. It's that time of year again, Wendy is loving the cold weather and Jimbo is ordering seeds and getting ready to plant 600, yes that's SIX HUNDRED onions? I don't make this stuff up I just write out the checks and try to put harvest time out of my mind. We will have about a quarter acre garden that will include of coarse tomatoes, green beans, sweet peas, squash, peppers, corn , cucumbers and don't forget the onions. That garden will be down by the road. Out back we will have 2 arces of purple hull peas. For those of you who don't know what purple hull peas are they are like gold here in East Texas. We will have orders for all we can grown and more. I can hardly wait!! Progress reports on our garden will be forthcoming.