Monthly Archives: October 2006

Exhaustion


The start of something new: pak choy babies

I have always been one to overestimate my strength. I don’t know what I was thinking, but all that rain means the garden paths are boggy. And I had taken on the task of putting in the new perimeter beds: a big U-shaped bed that’s 45′x50′x45′ at the outside perimeter, and is 3′ wide. It needed more dirt to be a RAISED bed, of course; so, shovelful after wheelbarrowload after wheelbarrowload, I think I schlepped 30 loads of just dirt. And another 15 of compost. Wet compost, wet clay dirt. And I wondered why I hit a wall at 1:30 today, unable to continue.

Today is the second anniversary of the purchase of our farm.