42 Revolutions

Yesterday I received probably one of the best birthday gifts a dad could receive--a fun and peaceful evening out with my daughter. With a busy week planned, I needed to get out to the People's Republic of Perkins to pick zucchini and tend to a few other tasks.

We started by pulling up the early corn stalks and planting cover crop seed in the soil you see behind Abbey and the sunflowers. The cover crop is a "winter" mix of wheat, legumes and clover that will help build the nitrogen in the soil and break up the clay.

Abbey was so into gardening that we got a lot of other chores done too. We weeded, thinned and transplanted some small collards, picked zucchini, cucumbers and broccoli, deadheaded the marigolds, and sprayed the pumpkins and squash with egg water to repel the woodchucks that have been burrowing under the fence and into the garden.

We should be picking the basil that Abbey is standing by, but you only need so much basil. Some of the basil is Tulsi, or Holy Basil, and will be dried for winter tea.

With Abbey's cooperation and help, all the chores were done before the sun dropped below the horizon, so we also had some time to take some picture and to smell the flowers.