Weeding the Walkway

I spent some time today weeding the brick walkway up to the front door.  The weeds are already taking over!  My new handweeder was great!

Strawberries

The strawberries are weeded.  I used my new gardening tool-the hori hori knife from Japan.  It was a great tool to use.   It even works on dandelions.  I don't know if I can say I enjoy weeding now, but I enjoy using this tool!

Potato Planting

I planted all of the left over Yukon gold potatoes in the garden today.  They filled up the row we set aside for potatoes.  Now we'll have to find a new spot for the red potatoes.  I planted them shallow and will put heavy mulch.  It worked well last year.   We'll see how our involuntary seed potatoes do.  They are left-overs from last year's harvest that have already begun to sprout.

Time to plant the peas

We found some organic seed from Burpees today at Walmart.  A quick internet search reveals a possible connection between Burpees and Monsanto--oh, well, I guess finding organic seed at Walmart was too good to be true.  Supposedly, the man who now runs Burpee, George Ball, Jr., is (was?) a Monsanto employee.  Hard to track down any information however--I typed in George Ball and Monsanto but nothing came up.  Anyway, all wonderings aside, we cleaned up the left-over stalks and stuff from last fall and put the peas in the garden.  The tiller, which sat out all winter, started after three pulls!  What a wonderful machine.  We are planning to reward it with a premium spot in the new garden shed.