Here in North Carolina, the beginning of September means it’s time for the crazy storms, getting ready for Halloween and planting the Fall vegetable garden. I planted my garden this weekend and we have been having tornado warnings all day today, so the only thing left for me to do, is get out to the fabric store to buy fabric for my kid’s Halloween costumes.
Riley (my Daughter) wants to be Sleeping Beauty (it’s all about the pink dress) and Drew (my Son) is going to be Shrek. We started calling him an Ogre when he would make very loud Ogre”ish” noises, so the costume will be perfect for his cute little personality. I have the Sleeping Beauty pattern… nabbed it on Ebay several years ago because it’s out of print, and the ogre costume will be fairly easy to put together using a white tee shirt that I will put a few stitches in, some brown pants, boots and I’ll sew up a quick ill fitting vest. I am so set this Halloween!
The storms have been a little scary. Tornados touched down in my area at least twice today, so we put some pillows and blankets down on the floor in our interior hallway just in case. The kids had such a blast pretending there was a “monster” storm coming and diving onto our blankets. I love their little imaginations!
As for my garden… it was in sad shape. This Summer has been so hot, that I didn’t get out there to weed as much as I should have. The newspaper that I laid down on the soil did a great job of blocking out most of the weeds, but there was still a lot of work to be done before I could put in my new plants. First thing I did was pull all the weeds, and then I pulled out all the squash, cucumber and tomato plants. I left two tomato plants in that I planted late because they are just starting to produce their crops. I also left all the jalapeno peppers and green peppers in because they are still producing and doing really well. When I was pulling out my plants, I noticed that there were a ton of squash bugs hiding in the weeds and on the newspaper that I had put down as a weed blocking mulch. I don’t want a bunch of squash bugs Wintering in my garden, so I threw some cracked corn right into the beds, and sent the chickens inside to clean things up for me.
I love gardening with my silly chickens (some of them ran when my husband was trying to take the picture, but there were about 15 chickens in the garden with me doing their share of the work).
