Planting

What better way to start a blog from a farmers wife prospective than the garden! Here in the northwoods of wisconsin this year has gotten off to a slow start. We've just come out of 8, yes 8 continuious months with snow in them, so the garden is a bit late in planting this year, but realy not by much. So far, 2 days into June, the only snow we've seen is the fluff off the popple trees :) We always start our garden inside sometime around Febuary since the peppers take a while to get going, and the tomatoes get started a short time after that. I dont have a picture of the plants in the kitchen, but believe me when i say i'm always glad when its time to plant outside so i can get rid of the jungle in the house :D 

I always love the way the garden looks when its freshly tilled and all fluffy looking, just wating for the plants. I'm always filled with hopes of beautiful bounties of veggies at this pint. My 2 boys (ages 2 and 4) are taking advantage of the nice fluffy dirt here before its full of seeds and they cant play in there anymore.

My baby pepper plants all ready and wating to be planted! It probably looks like a ton of plants since its only peppers in this picture, and you'd be right, i didnt count them, but there's a lot as you can see. I guess thats the nature of a farm garden. This garden will aslo, if all goes well, feed us untill next year, plus i always like to have extra to share :)

Our 4 year old helping daddy plant the potatoes :) I always love waching my sons with there dad, expecialy in a setting like this. They just soak up the experience and learn so much (plus its always fun to play in the dirt!).

Finishing up the potatoes and all done! No, the white stuff isnt snow, haha, we bed the peppers with shredded paper, it keeps the weeds down and the moisture in! The 2 sort of grassy rows are winter onions and baby rhubarb plants, we'll be working on getting all that grass out over the summer. This years garden consists of peppers, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, lettus, green beens, potatoes and broccoli! I'm a bit sad that we dont have peas this year, but not that sad ;)
Its been said that you can't be a farmer with out faith and hope; i'm a firm believer of that saying and i think it also goes with a gardener too. You cant farm or plant with out the faith that God will provide the right amount of rain and sun to grow the plants, and grass for the animals and provide for us.