Before leaving for break... we break the earth!!!

So, Doro and I spent a long day last week Wednesday, and got the garden that much closer to being ready for direct seeding. Doro was a composted fertilizer-spreading machine, and I duct-taped the broken gear shifter on the tiller well enough that she'd stay in first, giving me enough control to start turning up some soil!




It was nice that a young boy from the neighborhood, Caleb I believe his name was, stopped by on his way home from school and tried to help us out for a bit:




I say 'tried' to help because shortly after appearing to be a good, hard worker, he was getting awfully distracted by things, and began to slow both Doro and I down. In my opinion, he ultimately ate more oranges that I brought for snacks than he earned. Well, at least he seemed to enjoy the experience :)




This all happened six days ago, before we took a short break to visit friends in Colorado. Today, I came out and, after fixing our gas-powered mower (yay!) cleaned the paths between the rows. Tomorrow I'll be tilling at 6-8 inches deep... wish me luck! After that, I might drop some imported soil on top as a final touch, and we'll be ready to start bringing our plants and seeds out...

Stay tuned!
Matt

PS -- I can't wait for spring break to be over, so our club members can rejoin in all this fun work that is involved with running a garden ;)