Moving Forward...WOO HOO!

Dad and I were able to move forward with the garden yesterday! We spent about 3 hours in the dirt yesterday afternoon and got a lot accomplished. We planted approximately 60' of Top Crop Bush Beans, 3 mounds of watermelon (9 plants), 3 mounds of cantaloupe (9 plants), 4 Burpless Cucumber plants and 4 Bush Cucumber plants. Dad thought it would be beneficial to put some cow manure/compst in our mounds for watermelon and cantaloupes prior to covering with soil and planting.  So...he did just that!

We ended our evening by planting two rows of sweet corn which came to me as a gift from Denny, one of my nice friends from church. He is a Kansas native and has some friends who actually grow sweet corn for a living. When Denny went back to Kansas for a visit recently, he brought me enough seeds of his favorite kind, Honey Select, to plant a couple rows in my garden! What a great surprise!

We plan to plant 4 different varieties of sweet corn, but plant one variety every 2 weeks so we can spread out the time when it all will be ready to harvest. The size of our garden really seems big to me when I start counting how many corn seeds we planted. So...we planted 2 rows, each 100 ft. long. Each row had approximately 175 seeds. Yes...if all Honey Select corn seeds grow...that is 350 stalks! Whoa...that's a lot of corn! This garden stuff is SO MUCH FUN!