Around upstate New York people joke about how we "grow" rocks. Spend 5 minutes digging in the dirt and you'll understand why people say it! Putting in the fence last year (and digging lots of holes), I quickly realized that they were completely right. Now that I've been working in the garden, I'm really sick of rocks!
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The garden before I removed the top layer of rocks. |
I wasn't crazy enough to think that I'd be able to get all of the rocks out of the garden, but I at least wanted to get the top layer of big ones out before I planted. And once the garden is tilled I'm going to remove a few more from the bed where I'm going to plant the root vegetables.
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The garden after I removed some rocks. |
I spent a few hours removing rocks last week. The second day I even had a friend...I brought T out to graze in the garden while I worked. It was a great opportunity to do some "green" mowing and work on his stake training as well.
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A work in progress. I used the rocks to "pave" my muddy parking space up by the house! |
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One very happy grazing llama! |
We also spread compost on the garden. The front-loader on the tractor is a bit less maneuverable than I was hoping, but we still got the job done. I may need to straighten the pallet fence around my compost pile though!
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Lots of gorgeous compost underneath all that hay. |
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Spreading compost with a very large tractor. |
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Compost on the garden! |
I'm hoping to get the garden tilled (or rather, have my husband till it!) this weekend too! We got almost 3" of rain on Friday, so it will need a bit of time to dry out first. It will be so nice to get plants in the garden!
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