The dirt under my finger nails

It could take several days of scrubbing to get it all out!  Maybe I should buy gardening gloves?  Nah....I love the feeling of the earth beneath my hands to much.

You see before you (starting closest to you)  6 raspberry plants, 2 blueberry bushes, 2 blackberry plants and 1 strawberry plant.  I figure the strawberry play will span out quite a bit so i might not need more than 1.  I still have to steak the raspberry plants, but there is plenty of time for that as they are not big enough yet to require steaks.

It was a big pain in the butt to rip up all the grass and shake - or beat) the soil from the roots.  And I kept finding lumps of coal in the dirt.

The rocks are to protect the earth from the rain. That's the spot where the rain falls off the roof and hits the ground.

And of course, The pin wheel at the end.  I had 2 of them but Matt broke the other one :(  Good thing they are from the dollar store.


Next I have to tackle the back-yard along the fence.  There we plan to plant some veggies that we like to eat.  And I suspect that I will have an equally difficult time with the grass and I know I'll have an extra challenge with rocks.  See how at the end of the photo  is the driveway full of rocks?  my property backs onto  a parking lot full of rocks.  so that might be a problem, but I won't know until I start digging.

Also along the side of the house I'm going to plant some herbs that I will bring inside for the winter so I can have fresh herbs all winter long.  YUM!

You might remember that my kids planted some stuff in pots during the winter.  I'm sad to report that Pumpkin was overzealous in watering them and consequently they died.