I am so exhausted. We’ve been trying to figure out how to dig enough garden for what we want to plant, and the thought of all the shovel work had daunted us. Then in conversation with Brian Rosino, he offered the use of a rototiller. Wheeee!
We picked it up this morning and started on the right half of the back yard. My mom’s yard is huge. After the first go round, we picked up weeds, raked and then took a break. After lunch we trimmed a tree and I took out three sucker trees in the yard. Those got chopped up and or saved out for trellis bits. Dan mowed the front yard while I did a lot of this. Then he mowed the back. While he did a second round of tilling, I raked up and moved the weeds to the area that will be our compost bins site.
Brandy of course thought we were nuts and took a nap in protest of all our work. We think we have about 500 sq ft of garden. 🙂 If the rains will cooperate, we will be planting squash, (3 kinds), pumpkins, radishes and whatever is left of the seeds from the side garden planting.
Around 4pm, we returned the rototiller. We finished up the last of the work in the back yard and then collapsed. Tomorrow is going to be a very stiff day. Even now my hands are aching from all of the weed pulling. Ugh!
Stiff, but I’ll bet you feel a lot of satisfaction! Days in the dirt are always good days.
Oh yes. Playing in the dirt is always fun. 🙂
OK reminder to self do not read Rozes blog at 6am feel I have to go back to bed to recover from all that hard work.
LOL! It’s two days later and I’m still trying to recover from all that hard work. I pulled a muscle in my inner thigh all the way from my groin to my knee. I stride away and all of a sudden… hitch! Pain! And of course, himself comes along with that look. The one that says “And what were you doing that you shouldn’t?” sigh… no winning.