You did WHAT today??

You'll never guess, in 100 million years, what we did today. And since you'll never guess, I'll show you. (I knew you'd never believe me, so we took a video of it!)



The kids rode a boat through the garden! How's that for redneck gardening??
Here's more, from the other perspective...


Okay, so you're probably wondering what on earth we were doing this for. You didn't think we did it just for fun, did you? Well, Dustin planted cereal rye as a cover crop in the garden last fall. Cereal rye looks similar to wheat, and is supposed to be good for the garden. Plus, you let it get so tall, then you "mash it down", and it dies and magically becomes a bio-degradable, all natural mulch! We thought we'd give it a try in our garden this year, particularly where we plant the pumpkins since they have to be spaced out so far, and the weeds tend to take over that 50' x 50'+ area before the pumpkins do. So how do you "mash down" cereal rye? Well, with a 4-wheeler, a boat, and 4 kids, of course!

Here's hoping it works!!

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