Got Angel and Imp out for a doggy walk down at the waterfront earlier today, and just got back inside from digging in the garden for just over an hour ....
...And it's HOT out!
Okay, maybe it's only currently 21 degrees, but it's gorgeously sunny and sure feels much hotter in the sun (particularly when doing hard manual labour).
I thought I'd best take a break, I don't want to overdo it and get heat stroke or hurt my back ... but I've done a fairly good job at getting out all the blackberry cane bases in the garden section of the yard, and am currently working on digging loose the mound of dirt in front of the apple tree, to loosen it so that we can then level the garden. The half of the garden nearest the house does still need a good weeding, but it doesn't seem to have the same blackberry cane bases that I was dealing with in the rest of the garden, mostly just generic weeds that have to be dug up.
I'm running out of places to put the weeds, though! Currently I have a large blue barrel about the size of a garbage can filled with the blackberry bits and roots I've been digging up, along with other random weeds dealt with at the same time and some pieces of branch I've cleared out as I've moved around the garden.
Have to figure out what to do with it before I go much further in that sort of work. Plus I have a pail which is filling up with random pieces of garbage ... old plant markers, an empty bullet case or something which looks much like it, piece of a pen, a broken piece of cutlery ... you name it, seems like other folks just figured the garden was also a midden for them to toss their random trash into previously.
Ah, well, we're getting closer and closer to actually having the beds in so I can start getting plants into the ground!
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