“The RoseBouquet”

Hurrah! I actually got the photocopying of the Uncle John Binders finished last Saturday - well, except for a couple of pages that need to be done on legal length paper, and my home printer can’t seem to handle that length.

This week Saturday I hope to do and maybe complete the narrative part with the stories my Dad, and my uncle and aunts told about Uncle Johnny. I thought I had already done that, but checked on three computers and could not find that file, so I may have to do the whole thing over from scratch. Oh-well…!

Besides this, the weather is warming up nicely, and I’m gearing towards making my garden on Monday. That is Victoria Day here in Canada. It is to celebrate the Queen’s birthday, however, those who have cottages up north, head that way to open them for the season. Others like me, consider it a great day off from the regular schedule so we can make our gardens.

And guess what; my garden doubled on Thursday evening! My good neighbour Joe had borrowed a rotortiller, and came to dig up my garden for me. I had hinted before that he could do the other side of the path as well, and it would save him coming to mow my back lawn for me during the summer. It would also give me a larger potato patch and more flower beds. So he did.

Turning over the garden space I’ve had for two summers now was easy, and the soil looks rich and black because of all the compost I’ve tossed on it and turned into the soil each spring. Digging up the east side of the path was harder for Joe. He really had to wrestle with that tiller to get that hard soil loosened up. The dirt looks gray and sandy, and is not as deep yet. So I think I’ll mainly plant potatoes this year in that area, or other deep root veggies, and that will loosen up the soil more, and when I turn them into the garden in the fall, the soil will begin to be enriched.

I was going to toss in a couple of shots….of Joe tilling my garden, to contrast with the garden later when it is in full growth. Well, I got started and guess what, it turned into a photo story page. Check it out here; My 2009 garden and a NEW one!