Peas and Radishes and Potatoes, Oh My!

We have some plants!  Our peas, radishes, potatoes and even a few onions came up and I spent time weeding around each little plant today.  Speaking of weeding, it was always such a drudgery in Kansas with the hard soil.  I hated it.  Here, the soil is so loose and soft that just pulling a hoe across the surface pretty much dislodges all the weeds.  I might even say that I like it.  After we planted everything, it was warm and sunny and didn't rain for about a week.  I was itching to water it, but refrained.  Then came several days of rain.  After the rain came more sunny weather and I went back to check out the progress.  What I saw was a green carpet across our freshly tilled dirt.  That wasn't a happy sight.  My thoughts were as follows: "That's how fast weeds cover the entire garden after just one (very long) rain.  Wow.  I'm doomed.  This garden will take up all my time!"  Then I went over it with a hoe and breathed a huge sigh of relief.  Easy peasy.  

Ryan built a "trellis" of sorts above the sugar snap peas (string and stakes) so they can begin climbing.  We have string and stakes to mark out 6 sections of radishes - we will plant a section each week or so.  The first section has begun coming up, with the two small leaves showing.  As I went along the rows, hoeing and weeding, I noticed a few potato leaves popping up and the straight green stems of the onions showing themselves.  

We then cut some rhubarb down and Ryan took it to the kitchen to be chopped.  He and Maryanne (a wonderful lady helping in the kitchen) chopped it to 85 cups!  They use rhubarb here quite a bit: rhubarb pie, rhubarb crisp, rhubarb sauce for french toast and such, etc.  The kids had fun playing with the huge leaves!