Saturday, April 24th

Kirt cut and installed the insulation in the area under the stairs. Then he cut the piece of sheet rock for the ceiling in that little area. It had to have 8 small square or rectangle holes cut into it to match up with electrical boxes for access. Yikes! it was a lot of work.

Planted Seedlings

On Monday, the 19th, Kirt put our little seedling beans and cucumbers out in the garden. We still have some other vegetables that are not quite ready. Yesterday it poured, so hopefully none of them drowned!
The sunflowers are all about 6 inches tall in their little pots, but their plot is not ready yet.

The Garden...

Every day Kirt comes home, changes and then goes out to work preparing the garden for planting. I started some seeds indoors to get them growing. We have 2 raised planter boxes, but really need more. The trick it putting them where the most sun hits for the longest time during the day. He had to turn over the soil and add some other dark stuff and dig it all up over and over.
The prophet has told us to plant a garden to help feed our families. When we tried growing corn last year and were not successful I showed these cobs to our Relief Society and told them "Don't wait till you NEED to feed your family from your garden to learn how!"
This morning he is able to plant the tomatoes- we bought plants for them. Our seeds are just popping up in their little boxes with the clear plastic domes to keep it warm and moist inside.
We have 2 different kinds of green beans, peas, squash and cucumbers and dill weed. I would like to bottle dill pickles this summer. I have not canned pickles since 1971.