A Garden Update.

It's finally raining.

Planting season finally ended for us yesterday and I couldn't be more happy. The deadline was this week and we made it just in time!

This morning, the farmer headed off to the market. I stayed home today, I had no idea it would rain so perfectly today so now I am glad I stayed home.

I

got out of the bed and gave the boys their morning bottles and headed to the garden. I searched through the huge squash leaves and found so many tiny squashes! I was so tempted to pick them. I thought of all the little old ladies that preached to me during the Summers I worked the markets, they'd always say that if I wanted to make a great squash casserole, I had to use the small ones because of how tender they were. AND that was for sure the only ones they'd buy! Always the tiny squash!

I

slowly walked in between the rows of corn, squash, peas, and watermelon. I checked on my cucumbers and beans and once I had spent time admiring it, I headed to the side to see the real attraction. Behind the orange tree sits many little "accidental" sunflowers and let me tell you, they're so beautiful. I watched little bees flying in and out of them and covering their legs in pollen. My sister and I went back and forth on what kind of bee it could be, they were so tiny! I contacted my bee experts (Hickman Honey CO.) and she said it was indeed honeybees! I looked them up and sure enough, they fit the description for wild honeybees. Now I am even more excited to plant my pollinator flowers! I got a packet of pollinator flower seeds in yesterday and can't figure out where I want to plant them.

Oh, the garden woes!

What're you growing in your gardens? If you don't have a

garden, then what are you dreaming of planting?

-Lady of the Farm