The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

A while ago, I wrote a column about the gardens that my brother, cousin, and I were trying to grow. Now, I figure it's high time for an update.

I started all of my seedlings a good distance from Waitsburg's average date of last frost, April 27. Eventually, I had produced two cherry tomato plants - a bonus, since I only needed to plant one. Three of my four pepper seeds sprouted - good, as that was the exact number I needed to plant. I sowed a couple rows of carrots on April 6, hoping against hope that they would grow as well as the stubborn clumps of grass that had sprung up in the garden bed....