Wednesday in the Garden

Finished weeding the onions this morning. I'm not sure if we're going to be able to salvage them, but it's worth a shot. Everything else is looking surprisingly good. Two beds are mulched now. That should really help with the weeds and keeping the ground wet.

Next week, there's going to be a group of volunteers helping out for a couple hours each day. Mostly they'll be doing some painting in the office and front hall of the school, but I'm hoping to pull a couple of them to help dig the blasted holes for our sign. There are just so many rocks in the field that I've been really discouraged trying to dig them by myself. After all, it took me two hours to plant a couple of roses. Having help will be wonderful.

Also, tomorrow afternoon I get to see the plan the our volunteer UVA A-School folks have drawn up for us. I'm very excited to see what they've come up with.

Anyway, here are some more pictures from this morning.

Here are the tops of the potato plants. They're buried under about 8 inches of straw.

Things are really doing a lot better now that we're getting some rain.

There are a couple of great things in this picture. The first thing is the watermelon is flowering. The second thing is that they're being pollinated. That needs to happen if we're going to be eating melon anytime soon.