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three steps back

Thursday in preparation for our trip I finished planting the garden.
Today I sadly inventoried all the dead transplants,
AND the mole/vole hills.

Mrs. Hudson at the Hardware store recommends planting a caster bean plant at each corner of the garden. The beans are deadly for many animals (yes, the very bean that caster oil comes from!) so we don't want to plant it and risk losing the geese, chickens, and dogs.

So for my tomato and pepper plants, I am now back to square one and hoping that the moles didn't eat all the other seeds I planted. I'm now also debating whether or not to head to square two and buy some sturdy plants to transplant instead of all the wimpy seedlings I grew.

And the video of our fowl friends' pecking order refuses to load on my blog, so that crazy scenario might have to wait for another time.

And another day passes as we rush into summer.
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Jennifer said…
my kids saw Night of the Museum part 2 and because of that REALLY wanted to see the Lincoln Memorial. In fact I asked them if there was anything they really wanted to see in DC and they all said the LM and the Air and Space Museum. They never complained about the steps. They loved it. In fact, they were real troopers the entire time.
April 19, 2010 at 5:41 PM
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