Finally I got out there and got started. I picked a spot and Cody went and ran the tiller through it for me. I started with getting all of the weeds out and then leveled the ground.
Diane (Cody's Mom) and I went to the Wal-Mart to pick out some plants and get some soil. We also got Plant Food and some cute gardening gloves LOL. 
When we got back home we formed an assembly line and together got the job done quickly. We were pretty damn proud of ourselves. It was really hard work, a lot harder than I had anticipated (I hurt everytime I moved for the next two days).My garden was so cute! It was well worth all the work.
We Planted:
> 3 Tomatoes *two Big Boys and one Cherry Tomato*
2 Crook Neck Squash
1 Cucumber
1 Pepper
1 Sweet Basil
1 Cantalope
1 Watermelon
A Week In:
R.I.P Cantalope
> My Cantalope Died. I think I killed it. On the way home from the Wal-Mart it got tipped over and one of the leaves on it broke. (There is no way that was releated to my bad driving.) We planted it, but it couldn't be saved.> My mom came by to see it (I was so excited I had to show someone). She gave me some good adivce:
1. Go and buy another pepper. You need two of them to cross pollenate each other. (For the record I HATE peppers, but Diane likes them so we put them in)
2. Get a couple little flowers and plant them in the garden, they will help with getting bees to come around to pollenate the peppers.
> I think my watermelon is dieing. I'm not going to give up on it. We will see what happens.
Exactly 7 days after Planting:
Diane was out working in the backyard when she noticed how bad the soil we planted the garden in was. It was hard as a hell!
So we decided to move it to a different spot in the yard that had better soil.
We worked together leveling out a new patch and pulling out any weeds. We formed another assembly line taking each plant out (One-By-One) and putting them in the new hole with more plant food and some of the original soil with the old soil it was already planted with.
We got it all done in an hour! (Great team work!!!!)
Diane went out and bought a few more plants to add to it:
> 1 Pepper
1 Big Bush Tomato
1 Watermelon
1 Cucumber
3 Pansys (For the Bees)
My brother Brent (AKA "Grandpa's Clone") came over to see what he thought about it. He gave me some good advice.
> 1. Water them twice a day! (Very good advice because I was only watering once a day)
2. My watermelon was deffinetly dead. (It was really funny because right after Brent said that it was dead, Cody accidentlay SQUISHED it with his foot. This is funny because I hate watermelon, and he loves it)
R.I.P Watermelon
> I have new leaves coming in on my cucumbers and my squash! They are doing good!!
> I have some blossoms coming in on my peppers!
> I had to use some little posts to help hold up my tomatoes, but they are looking great now!!!!
I will post more as the summer goes on!
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