Gardening is a family affair

As it turns out, planting a garden is a family affair.
And in our backyard, it includes tools like a spade, sticks and a magnet.
Derek was able to borrow a quite powerful tiller from a friend this weekend and he got the garden (and then some) tilled up and ready for Sunday planting.

Derek tilled up the garden late last week.
(Photo by Anna Jauhola)

Jacob thought the tilled up garden was great.
(Photo by Anna Jauhola)

We have our garden planted about halfway with corn, a crapton of onions, tomatoes, super chiles, green peppers, sweet peppers and two strawberry plants.
We have yet to plant carrots, beets, peas, beans, cucumbers, pumpkins, a sunflower and a watermelon.
Derek used the spade the most. He dug up the horizontal rows for corn seeds and first three rows of onion bulbs.
On the second three rows of onions, we each dug vertical rows with sticks. Yep, that's right, sticks. We got a little lazy, but it worked! So why not? Sticks are plentiful in our yard.

Derek (will kill me for this photo) did most of the digging. (Photo by Anna Jauhola)

When it came to planting the tomato, chile, pepper and strawberry plants, Derek dug the holes with the spade. He told me a couple times, "There should be another spade around here somewhere."
I conveniently didn't find it until after we were done for the night. Haha.
I feel it's normal to plant 18 tomato plants, but not so much 20 chile plants. But, Derek did. He planted 20 chile plants. He really likes hot things.

Twenty of these guys are currently living
in our garden. (Photo by Anna Jauhola)

But while we planted, Jacob's job was to collect the nails we unearthed.
Nails, you ask? Yes. Nails. As it happens, there was once a garage in the area we have our garden. Every few inches or so we find one to five nails. Thus, Jacob used a magnet to collect any nails he found.
At any rate, our garden is coming along nicely. We even used tomato cages. Ain't we fancy pants?
So now we have a half-planted garden that looks progressive because we planted seedling plants.
We even watered it last night before sundown.

(Photo by Anna Jauhola)

Tomatoes, peppers and super chiles in our garden. (Photo by Anna Jauhola)