CORN PLANTING TIME!!

It was finally time to plant the corn, so we did for Family Night in the Garden on Monday night, July 23rd!!
There was only a couple of problems:
1.  I didn't pre-soak the seeds long enough for the primary root to come out.  I thought this would slow the growth down, but apparently it didn't.  I soaked them for 24 hours and that's all they needed!!
2.  We didn't have NEARLY enough seeds for the eight beds we wanted to plant.  The next day was a holiday, and then two days later I had to resort to getting seed somewhere else, at a higher price!  Ugh!!  Oh well, we have seven beds planted!!

 We  had a lot of great helpers Monday evening!!  Beds got raked, "poked" and planted, and we picked lots of squash, zucchini, and cucumbers!

 And, believe it or not, the corn planted on Monday night (the 23rd) was up 3" by Saturday night (28th)  AMAZING!!  So, I guess we only need to soak the seed overnight to give it a good headstart!

Thanks, everyone, for all the great help!!

AFTERMATH...WIND AND HAIL!

The pictures show how the wind and hail can shred our plants with very little difficulty. Good thing we're pulling a lot of them to get the corn planted!!

SINGING (or SWIMMING) IN THE RAIN!!

We FINALLY received some much needed rain!!!  Of COURSE, it had to be on the day we planned to do a lot of garden work!!  So, we just enjoyed the blessing of not being terribly hot while we got a lot done!!

(Special thanks to Elizabeth Dover for REALLY enjoying the rain, complete with swim suit and swim cap!)

TEN MORE DAYS UNTIL WE PLANT THE CORN BEDS!!!