Gardening???

Have you ever planted a garden?  I never have; never! I've never had the place to do it really.  Well, when we moved to Colorado the house we got had a perfect spot.  It was overtaken with weeds and we contemplated just planting grass, but decided to go for it! So we planted a huge garden even though we'd never done it before.  One Saturday we all got out there and pulled weeds and cleared the area.  The kids helped! Woo!  Then my husband decided to till the dirt.  That's what your supposed to do right?  So, the next day we take the kids and pick out all the seeds and prepared to plant.  Jay, my husband, draws out a map of where everything will be planted and makes the rows.  Everyone begins to plant the seeds and within an hour or two we are done.  We planted watermelon, squash, okra, pumpkin, lettuce, cauliflower, carrots, and uhhmmm I think that's all.  What an accomplishment!  We felt pretty darn good about it. Low and behold, a few weeks later we noticed that there were these little purple "things" sprouting up EVERYWHERE AND I MEAN EVERYWHERE!!!  What they hay!??  Not only were they in between the rows, but on top of everything we planted.  Yes, it's a bit commical, but I was the one who would ultimatley be dealing with these creatures growing up from the underworld all around my fresh veggies!  So I took a clump of it to our local nursery to get some advice.  The "wise" man began with "Ohhhh", and proceeded to tell me that they were weed seed.  I explained to him our whole process and when I got the tilling part he stopped me.  He explained that what we had done was stirred up weed seeds that had probably been dormant for about 15-20 years.  WHAT?!!?? So guess what I had to do?  Yep, pull them.......all....of....them.  Slowly but surely I'm pulling, hoeing, and raking these evil weeds from my garden. Spent some time doing it today and got a nice little burn on my back.  Next time, I don't think we will be tilling anything.  Live and learn! :)

Happy journey,
Lonna