Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 6 Entries. Saturday, March 19 View Page It's time to start things up, MBH tells me we will have her garden ready to go before we start the patch (WHAT??) so Winston and I have Hauled 3 loads of 3 year old compost. Winston say's time to play, I had to tell him we still had 1 more load to get for the garden. the compost is free but we have to drive1/2 hour in one direction to get it, aaaay it's all good I get to load it with a tractor. Thursday, March 24 View Page Had to get out the tiller, poor thing hasn't been fired since 2008 and showed it,we bought a new carburetor, power belt, air filter and control cable. changed the oil, gear lube and spark plug. Yay it started. lets not get to happy, the throttle lever broke off! (DAMN) Friday, April 1 View Page Polly planted beets and carrots last October, we ate them fresh all winter, now that we are building the larger vegie garden she wants a strawberry bed in that spot. I haven't even started the patch yet OH, well. Saturday, April 2 View Page OK. she's happy for now? Sunday, April 3 View Page OK, I have already used 4 trailer loads of compost on the wife's projects and now I have to wait to get more for the pumpkin patch, that's no problem we will be hauling that this week. I had started 5 seed's around the 8th of March, they were very old seeds since the last time I received seeds was in 03. An 11 86.4 Whittier 02, a 1247 handy 03, and two 1157 Wernher 03 and then there was this 777-03 Troy squash. none of the pumpkins sprouted so I started 3 other seeds I have, a 1057 Werner-03, a 1082 (dmg) Pugh-03 and a 1004 Werner-03. nothing yet on these yet but the 777 Troy popped up so I stuck it in a hill. we will be hauling compost and prepping the area for the patch, I hope a pumpkin sprouts, the patch will be ready to go. (I hope) it's raining off and on today but starting tomorrow we are supposed to have a couple of 80 deg. days (in April, go figure) Sunday, April 24 View Page Well that's a fine note none of the new seeds (old 03's) came up so I will give it one more go if nothing happens then 777 Troy 03 will be it this year at least I will be growing somethin. I wonder if this troy guy is still growing pumpkins?