Well we finally had a break in the weather this weekend.  First nice warm and sunny days I can remember in a while!

Basically our weekend was....

Friday, Dh wanted to go to our friends hot dog cart for lunch, did a little shopping after that.  Dh was to tired for more so headed home.  He wanted to try and get the gardens tilled before it got to late.  Well tiller would work...again!  We just had the carb rebuilt on it...that thing has giving us non stop trouble since we got it used a few years ago.    He decided we would either have to put on a new carb or motor or replace the whole thing.  Phoned around almost non of the normal hardware type stores are carrying rear-tine tillers any more...It's all the dinky little ones or front tine ones.  They just don't work that well.

Sat morning dh went down to talk to our small engine mechanic.  A new carb was going to be almost as much as a new motor...and that motor was going to be a lot to...He had ONE new tiller sitting there for sale and it wasn't much more then the price of a motor.  Since our old one is sooo old at least 20 years dh was worried about something else breaking on it...Our gardens are already a month behind because of it.  So he decided to get it.  It works wonderfully!!!

So on Sat we got the gardens tilled up.  Then planted 50 lb of red potatoes and about 5 lb of purple ones.  The girls LOVED helping and were wonderful helpers.  After that we headed out to finish our shopping and treated them to ice cream for all their hard work.

Sunday, we normally would have rested but we are so behind fighting the weather.  We put in 100 lb of white potatoes, 9 bell peppers, 4 jalapeño peppers, 4 banana peppers, zucchini, and about 50 tomato plants.  It was a LOT hotter then Sat. so we moved a little slower and did the potatoes in the afternoon the rest in the evening.

Today I put in the green and yellow beens, carrots, a flat of broccoli and cucumbers.

Ummm I can hardly  move!! LOL  We still have another 100 lb of potatoes to put in this week and a few other things to.

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Posted by erkopp98

I would guess that you're tired about now! That's a lot of potatoes to plant in one weekend, plus the tomatoes and other plants. We were able to get some planting done this weekend, but not as much as I wanted to. We were rained on.

Erisa

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