Comes a time when hubby thinks that mother spends way too much money on grocerys. Food gets wasted a lot and I can't stand that. Leaving the mayonise out to go bad, is just the tip of the iceberg. For a family of four, it shouldn't take a mortage payment to buy food every week. So mother decides to grow her own food in the yard. Just how hard can it be to make a garden? Anyone can do that.
So I start to dig a spot where I'd like to see my garden grow. Dig, dig, dig. Kinda hard getting the top layer of grass off but finally we are down to dirt? No, rocks. More digging and more rocks. So I move over a couple of yards and begin hacking away at the grass layer, then looking for dirt. Nope. More rocks. So I decide to pry up the rocks with the shovel and break the shovel. Go to the garage and continue prying the rocks out of the ground breaking shovel # 2. After three shovels down, I finally head to town to buy another shovel. $14.99 buys a shovel. While I am there, I'm thinking I should get some soil to add to the dirt so I look at bags of soil and fertilizer for $12.99 each. Nah......I'm going to get the bags outside of the Dollar Store for $1.99 which should work just as good, right?
Back home down on my knees now tired of hoisting up rocks I find dirt but it's hard like concrete so I just dump my two bags of soil and fertilizer mixture in the area and spread it around with my little plastic kiddie rake. Looks good to me.
Back to town because now I have to get some seeds. I get an armfull of seeds to grow every vegatable known to man. Cost of seeds: $38.00. I get home and start thowing the seeds in the dirt. Looks good. I have decided now to get a sprinkler to water and watch my garden grow. Two days later the storms come and flood my little garden but I think that's a good thing, or is it? It's very muddy now and there is just a large pile of mud there. I wait and wait and don't see any sprouts. I check my garden every day and nothing.
Back to town the farmers tell me I have to buy seedlings. That's the vegatables that are already sprouted. So I buy a lot of those for $28.00 . I go home and did up my muddy garden and add these seedlings to it. I think they will grow now. So I wait.
Two months later I think I have a garden that is growing but I'm not sure what is food and what is weeds so I begin to pull what I think the weeds are. Oops, I think I pulled up some carrots so I shove them back.
Then one morning I come home from town and here this terrible but very familar sound. It's the mower. And it ran right over my garden and mowed it down. Now I'm rushing out to the garden and trying to save what I can. The garden is gone. They told me it was all just grass there. No food. Just grass and weeds.
One year later I go walking outside in the yard one day and I see something over by the place where I had tried to grow a garden. Not sure what it is so I bend down and take a look and pull up something.
Watermelons!
I grew watermelons!
They were nasty and tasted so bad you wouldn't want to eat one.
But I grew watermelons.
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Wonder if they will come back again this year.
So I start to dig a spot where I'd like to see my garden grow. Dig, dig, dig. Kinda hard getting the top layer of grass off but finally we are down to dirt? No, rocks. More digging and more rocks. So I move over a couple of yards and begin hacking away at the grass layer, then looking for dirt. Nope. More rocks. So I decide to pry up the rocks with the shovel and break the shovel. Go to the garage and continue prying the rocks out of the ground breaking shovel # 2. After three shovels down, I finally head to town to buy another shovel. $14.99 buys a shovel. While I am there, I'm thinking I should get some soil to add to the dirt so I look at bags of soil and fertilizer for $12.99 each. Nah......I'm going to get the bags outside of the Dollar Store for $1.99 which should work just as good, right?
Back home down on my knees now tired of hoisting up rocks I find dirt but it's hard like concrete so I just dump my two bags of soil and fertilizer mixture in the area and spread it around with my little plastic kiddie rake. Looks good to me.
Back to town because now I have to get some seeds. I get an armfull of seeds to grow every vegatable known to man. Cost of seeds: $38.00. I get home and start thowing the seeds in the dirt. Looks good. I have decided now to get a sprinkler to water and watch my garden grow. Two days later the storms come and flood my little garden but I think that's a good thing, or is it? It's very muddy now and there is just a large pile of mud there. I wait and wait and don't see any sprouts. I check my garden every day and nothing.
Back to town the farmers tell me I have to buy seedlings. That's the vegatables that are already sprouted. So I buy a lot of those for $28.00 . I go home and did up my muddy garden and add these seedlings to it. I think they will grow now. So I wait.
Two months later I think I have a garden that is growing but I'm not sure what is food and what is weeds so I begin to pull what I think the weeds are. Oops, I think I pulled up some carrots so I shove them back.
Then one morning I come home from town and here this terrible but very familar sound. It's the mower. And it ran right over my garden and mowed it down. Now I'm rushing out to the garden and trying to save what I can. The garden is gone. They told me it was all just grass there. No food. Just grass and weeds.
One year later I go walking outside in the yard one day and I see something over by the place where I had tried to grow a garden. Not sure what it is so I bend down and take a look and pull up something.
Watermelons!
I grew watermelons!
They were nasty and tasted so bad you wouldn't want to eat one.
But I grew watermelons.
Wonder if they will come back again this year.
