Old McDonald Had a Farm...

Old McDonald really had a farm. True Story.

{Old McDonald being my Gramps}

He grew up on a Farm in where I call the deep south.

{although, some argue on whether the farm was in the DEEP South, or just the South. 

moving on...}

So Old McDonald grew up, moved away from the farm, and eventually ended up in a town in California's Bay Area where there is not much farming...

 ....until now {thanks to me. and even then, it hardly counts as farming. but we'll get to that}

So one day, Old McDonald's granddaughter moved in with him and decided that she wanted to plant a garden.

Little did she know,

 that Old McDonald knew more about gardening than he had led her to believe. 

Little did she know,

 that when he was growing up his 'garden' was one full acre. 

And little did she know,

that this new garden of theirs would be more than just a garden.

One Spring day, little miss granddaughter, who had no knowledge of gardening/plants went to home depot and got a batch of plants that she thought might be fun to have in a garden.

Among those plants were a few tomatoes, some corn {like i said, she had no knowledge of gardening whatsoever} , some cucumbers, and maybe something else.

 She went home, put on her cowboy boots and a t shirt 

and so begins the  legendary garden. 

{this was the process of digging the garden. I got through this with a little help from my pops :)  }

The picture above were the "Before" pictures. 

Old McDonald is pretty old.

 At 92 some might say he's not as limber as he was in his prime.

That being said, the site of our garden is a raised bed on the side of the house, which is SO perfect because we don't have to bend down and break our backs gardening.

And Old McDonald can use his expert gardening skills to his hearts content. 

Continuing our story....

So the weeks went by and some plants died {the corn. big surprise}

and were replaced and some lived {not many}.

After about half of the plants didn't make it, Old MAC instructed his granddaughter that she in fact didn't plant them correctly, explaining their death.

If at first you don't succeed, try try again. Which is exactly what they did. 

Currently, we have 3 Tomatoes, 1 cucumber, 3 HUGE zucchini, about a million turnip greens, and 2 Bell Pepper plants. 

It's no longer a garden. It's a farm. 

{Above was after everything had been planted}

{Below is the "farm" to date...}

{yes, that is a cardboard Coyote in the garden! hah.}

{the zucchini leaf in comparison to my hand}