The Garden..a Montana tradition

So we have lived here over 5 years, and have cultivated nothing but weeds in this thing. I have a beautiful fenced & irrigated garden. We specialize in weeds of any kind. We poison it each year...they come back. Not THIS year. This year we will plant! So here begins the saga. Of the weed pulling, roto-tilling, rock picking, muddy floors in my house, family fun. At least that is what i thought...this will be a FUN family project. Uh-huh. Feel free to slap me now. FUN is no longer in my vocab. This has been a 4wk project thus far...and it has only begun. These photos are from the early days of my insanity.

 

 

Bubba decided to help. Dani helped too, but their "helping" usually lasted about 10 minutes on average and they would go back to something else. I am CONVINCED the prior owners were growing rocks! We picked so many rocks out of here some the size of a quater, many the size of a human head, Seriously! And the husband expected ALL the rocks to be picked out of said garden! Gimme a break!

 

E spent many a day after school, tilling and rock picking. We toiled just about every day on this thing to get it ready for planting.

 

And was typical, we worked until 9 or 9:30 at night, literally until it was too dark to see anything anymore. Did i mention FUN?