My tiller is broken!

Booo!  My husband was helping me till our garden and the Mantis has quit.  My sweet husband says the carburator needs to be cleaned.

So, in conversation with our auto repair friends, Brent and Sonya Crago at Top Tech Automotive in Cleveland, TN, their son asked if my Mantis would fit in his chicken coop--and, well if you know how I feel about the Mantis, the Mantis can go anywhere!  So, of course, my answer was that it would work perfectly to till his coop!

So, this is how we barter!

They will fix my Mantis (and who better to repair a carburator than an auto mechanic) and I will let them use it to till their chicken coop and turn the soil.  In addition, I will get 4 large bins FULL of chicken scrapings, for lack of a better term.  This will work beautifully in my composter!  I'm so excited I don't have words to express my excitement!  What makes it even more exciting is this "chicken run" provides their chickens with enough space to peck and graze without feed containing hormones of any kind or antibiotics.  Thus, these chicken scraps will be very close to organic.  Very exciting!

So, hopefully, I'll be back in business working my garden again next week. 

Happy gardening and make sure to send us your garden photos!

Mary, Mary...How Does Your Garden Grow?

Well, it's been over a month, nearly two months since we posted anything but we're still here!

Hoping the gardening season has been good to you this Summer.  We'd like to just ask folks to post pictures of their gardens if they can.  We'd really like to see what you're growing out there.

I piddled in my garden and planted my entire garden with garden peas.  I'll just say it was an experiment.  I was able to harvest about half my garden and got about 2 good pounds of garden peas that we will devour.

Since I planted these peas late they've kind of interferred in my Summer gardening plans.  However, I'm comfortable with the fact that many things can be grown all year.  So, even though my Summer garden may get started a little late, it will still produce well, so I'm not worried.

But many of you started your garden in May most likely and have a great harvest of tomatoes and squash to name a couple of things!  Show us!  We'd like to see!