Its back to the garden with 60 plus degree weather this week. Here is the garden as of yesterday. Every bit of snow in the yard has melted and somehow we didn't get pounded with rainstorms last week like some of the northeast so the soil isn't muddy and quite workable.
Finally I'm back to the toil of double digging the beds. As you can see, I've still got a ways to go. In the last two days I've gotten about four beds dug. This is hard work. Its all done by hand using a shovel and a garden fork. And every shovel or fork full of earth reveals at least a handful of stones to be removed.
Its hard to say how many stones are removed. My routine has evolved to having a few 5 gallon buckets on hand lined up beside the area that is being dug. The stones go in the bucket and when the buckets reach about half way full (which is a reasonable weight for me to lift), I empty them into the wheelbarrow. After so many buckets of stones I then walk the wheelbarrow over to my stone dumping site... far far away from the garden. Because it seems like we have so many stones in the soil, we formed a sizable pile from 2009. So I'm starting a new pile... I think it will be interesting to see if the piles from year to year change much. Will there be less and less? Smaller and smaller? I hope!!!
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