Dragon Tongue Bush Beans

[baymule]

My DH and I have the gardening thing alllll worked out! I dig up the beds, mix in the compost and plant. He waters the garden if I am too busy, picks the vegetables (like a little kid, he just LOVES that part) and I cook/prepare the vegetables and he eats them!

He is also a good sport about shoveling horse poop. He gives me the truck for the day so I can go scoop poop, unload poop, compost poop and clean poop from the back of his truck. A few times he has even scooped poop with me.

Our days off used to be offset. I was off Saturday and Sunday, he is off Sunday and Monday. I did a lot of the garden work on my Saturday off. A lot of times I would come home from work to find him watering the garden. That was nice because I could go in and start on supper. Now I am not working, so I do most of it during the day. This year I am not grabbing plants for a quick start, I have seedlings under 4' lights and more seeds to plant.

 

[vfem]

It's nice to see couples working in the garden! It makes me smile when I think of him out with me. I always remembered my grandparents out in the garden. My grandfather did most of the gardening, though my grandmother would graft and create roses of her own making more then mess with the veggies. Even though grandpa was the amazing grower of MANY things, my grandmother canned it all!

I'd like to think of hubby and I that way one day. But honestly, I talk to my BIL and his wife who are WAY into gardening about things more often then my husband. They are the one's who trade seed and enjoy reading 'Mother Earth News' like me. They're way off in Iowa though, so I don't get to share actual garden with them.

Hubby did speak to me about 'maybe' laying out the garden plan on paper this weekend where everything is going to go, and where we are going to rotate crops from last year. He may change his mind before tomorrow about doing that, but he thought about it... so that's a good sign

 

[897tgigvib]

vfem, maybe if you let him ENGINEER a garden...have him design it like a house, oh let it be all complicated!