Memorial Weekend: Saturday

Today, Dearest & I drove to town to get a few gardening supplies. The one thing I really wanted was a new gardening hoe. We went into the store and I found two hoes. One was a $25 fiberglass shaft with single piece head and the other was a $13 Ash shaft with the shaft welded onto a metal shaft attached to the Ash shaft. I really don't care for the look and feel of the fiberglass hoes. The Ash shafted hoe looked nice enough for light gardening. Plus it had a 5 year warantee.

After getting all of our supplies together, we headed to the new house. We haven't moved in yet, but we already have the garden set up. This year, we have been doing our gardening in traditional rows. Thats how my grandfather always gardened and that is the only way I knew. Regardless, after two hours of hoeing in the garden we are both starting to get tired. Unfortunately, we would both be done very soon.

At the two hour mark, we heard a ding and the head of the hoe flys off the end of the shaft. The ground wasn't solid and there weren't any big rocks. We still don't know what happened, but that was the end of hoeing for that day. We didn't get a whole lot more done considering the new hoe was broken.

We did get onions , bell peppers , jalapeno peppers, banana peppers, cucumbers, and potatoes transplanted.