Planting the Pumpkin Patch and Signs of Life

Today we planted a row of seven hills of pumpkins!  Hopefully by mid-October or so we will have plenty of pumpkins ready to go.  I don't know how many children are included in the families that use the food pantry at TUMC, but I want each of them to have a pumpkin for a jack-o-lantern this year.

Removing the sod cap.  The kids are helping.

We added organic fertilizer.

Mixing the fertilizer into the soil, and loosening the soil for planting.

Pumpkin seeds!

This is very interesting.

Tucking the seeds in.

Our finished row of planted pumpkins.  Now we wait!

In other garden news, some of the seeds we planted earlier are sprouting!  Check it out:

Radishes!

This bean tried really hard, but a bird dug him up.  I may need to replant all the beans.

Kale!  (Parsley in the foreground.)

Lettuce!

Onion!