Last Monday I spent all day doing this little section to plant cucumbers and squash. I used the shovel, the claw, the hoola hoe and was so tired I couldn't think straight. There is a lady up at the end of Howard that has rabbits and Ginny pigs. We went up there and got some rabbit manure but I'm sure it wasn't enough. We really need to add nutrients to this soil.
This is part of it done. Still need to put the squash in.
Tuesday I kept telling myself I needed to get out there and work the ground for the tomatoes but just couldn't bring myself to it. I was busy Wed. morning but had a thought of a friend that has a little Mantis tiller and got up the courage to call her. She said they lost a bolt on one of the handles but it still worked. I asked if we fixed the handle, could we use it.
So we went and got the Mantis.
In a matter of about 1 1/2 hours Jim worked up an area bigger than the area I worked on Monday and it was so much better.
I got the tomatoes planted but was planting cantaloupe nearly in the dark at 9:45
and I wasn't nearly as tired as Monday night. Jim on the other hand was tired. I so appreciated his help though.
While he was tilling I was pulling tree roots out. Not sure where they were coming from, most likely the tree in the back corner in the neighbors yard.
We started pulling this long root in the middle of it and had to cut it off at the fence and it ran all the way to where I have squash planted. It was hard to pull up too.
I have been doing some looking at information on raised bed gardening and saw several ideas about putting tomatoes on something to climb instead of in cages so I'm experimenting with having them on farm fence this year.
I decided to see how zucchini would do in a barrel.
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