The vegetable garden plot, that is. Our landscape contractor showed up around nine yesterday morning and spent about an hour tilling up the vegetable garden. I didn't get "before" pictures. Bad planning on my part. But here's an "after" shot.
Looking east (into the sun) on Tuesday morning. I haven't measured lately, but the plot is about ten meters on a side.
The contractor has a bigger and more powerful tiller than we do. And he's younger and stronger than either of us. There were a lot of weeds to contend with, but he made short work of it. The first tilling of the season is always the most difficult. Now that it's done, we should be able to run our tiller through it once or twice (to keep the weeds down) with relative ease before we plant in mid-May. Now it's time to get the seedlings going.
Great idea to have the contractor do the work. It looks great and you can now enjoy yourselves with the planting.
ReplyDeleteDitto what Mitchell said. It looks really good, and ready for planting fun!
ReplyDeleteThe plot looks lush!
ReplyDeleteGood looking dirt! Although I know you said that the local soil has a lot of clay and is not easy to work.
ReplyDeleteBettyAnn
Now let's all hope you have a great garden season! Shortly the watching for new sprouts will begin. Our season here is also given as the 15 May for after danger of frost.
ReplyDeletemitch, we do have to pass our own tiller over the plot a time or two to break up the big clumps. I'm hopeful it will be easier to do now that the first tilling of the season is done.
ReplyDeletejudy, yay!
evelyn, the soil is wet, so it looks pretty dark and rich right now.
bettyann, it's not, either wet or dry. :(
mary, fingers are crossed!