Ground Breaking

I personally know almost nothing about gardening and was a little nervous today as we got started. We began with just a chunk of ground. Several members had surveyed the space already (including those who own the property!) and tested the soil.

The first step was tilling the soil. In other words, we had to turn the grass upside down and get to the dirt. We had to pick up and toss rocks, brick, roots and other hard debris that was underneath.

One person would use the tiller as others shoveled and raked.



Once the ground was pretty well dug up, we flattened it out with rakes and put compost on it (the dark stuff). It was bought in bags at the store rather than schlepped from people's personal compost heaps.

On top of that we put biodegradable paper to keep the weeds down. The kids had fun putting the rocks on it to keep it down.

After all that, it was time to put up the fence. By now, I was exhausted, but those who still had any wind left managed to pull this off.

All this took about 4 hours.

Next week... planting.