Some garden chores are more difficult than others.
The one I'm attempting now is on par with the work of our illustrious midwestern American ancestors.
I'm sod busting. Breaking new ground for the garden expansion. Eastward HO!
It's grubby work. I loosen the sod with a shovel, then sit down and sift out the grass and weeds by hand, leaving as much soil as possible in place.
I don't have any big burly and romantic draft horses or steel plow more's the pity. But I get the job done.
I'm pretty good at it.
But it's time consuming.
This swath took me about an hour and a half.
I think I have a good four hours of work left before I can till the whole thing.
One nice thing about this project is that nothing goes to waste.
All the grass and roots [and a fair number of bugs and worms] gets delivered to the hens.
They know JUST what to do with them.
When I took this picture, Goldie was enjoying a few minutes alone picking through the smorgasbord at her leisure. The other hens had decided to have dust baths on the other side of the coop and she saw her chance at some detailed bug hunting without having to keep an eye out for the overbearing Phoebe all the time.
After the girls work all this stuff over, there will only be dried up grasses and roots, much reduced in bulk. Then they can go on the compost pile.
This is what farm recycling looks like. :-)
Everyone wins.
I'm pretty good at it.
But it's time consuming.
This swath took me about an hour and a half.
I think I have a good four hours of work left before I can till the whole thing.
One nice thing about this project is that nothing goes to waste.
All the grass and roots [and a fair number of bugs and worms] gets delivered to the hens.
They know JUST what to do with them.
When I took this picture, Goldie was enjoying a few minutes alone picking through the smorgasbord at her leisure. The other hens had decided to have dust baths on the other side of the coop and she saw her chance at some detailed bug hunting without having to keep an eye out for the overbearing Phoebe all the time.
After the girls work all this stuff over, there will only be dried up grasses and roots, much reduced in bulk. Then they can go on the compost pile.
This is what farm recycling looks like. :-)
Everyone wins.