Planting a Pot Roast

One thing we really enjoy eating at our house is Pot Roast. A nice Chuck Tender Roast of Beef, cooked in the crock-pot for about 9 hours over carrots, onions, and red potatoes...you just can't beat it.

So when Katie and I gathered the vegetable seeds to go plant this afternoon, Katie mentioned "hey, we're planting a pot roast!" I hadn't thought of it that way, but she was right - we planted 32 carrot seeds, 18 onion sets, and 12 potato seeds.

The beef...well for the sake of completing the "meal" we'll use this: the cows next door escaped through their fence a couple weeks ago, so the owners came out and re-fenced the entire other side of the street, which is apparently theirs as well. They then loaded up the cattle, drove 12 feet, and unloaded them. Now we have a view of 5 cows out our front door! So neat!



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Side note - I'm really, really tempted to ask them what they will be doing with that land; It sure would be nice to have some chickens within walking distance :D

The lettuce seeds seem to be coming up well, especially with the beautiful day we had yesterday.

I ended up planting twice the number of seed potatoes I had anticipated. I guess they just got the better of me - I couldn't throw away 14 perfectly good seed potatoes, so I planted 6 more in Bed #4. Here's a pretty cool shot of a seed potato - it's brilliant life, bursting at the seams and ready to grow.



Speaking of beds, I worked on Bed #3 by installing a $20 black plastic edging from Lowe's. That's no easy task, by the way. Hopefully I will be tilling it tomorrow, and dumping in a lot of peat moss and compost.

Last but not least, the farm animals :)