Being Destructive

It was a warm, but cloudy day today, and there is rain forecasted for the next several days.  I decided we needed to get some work done in the garden!

I have mentioned before that we had been planning to tear out the raised beds and till the garden since I am unable to maintain the no-till method using the broad fork and lots of manual prep.  These plans were side-lined by JP's retinal detachment in early December, and then by the pandemic.  (JP is wanting to get a new mowing tractor, which will also have a tilling attachment.

In any case, I have nothing planted in the garden yet.  Although I have lots of baby plants that are longing for room to stretch their roots!

I built them a little green house today, so I can start hardening them off in preparation for planting.  It is just a set of plastic shelving and clear plastic sheeting, along with strategically placed duct tape and clothes pins.

The girls and I headed down the garden armed with sledge hammers and the drill to remove screws.  We disassembled the top 7 raised beds, and heaved the planks over the fence on to a pile.  We may end up using these as walk ways once we get things tilled and planted.

One of the beds had a few things in it that come back:  some garlic, rhubarb, and a couple of bunches of tulips.  These we transplanted:  the tulips to my flower beds, the rhubarb to an empty area in the asparagus bed, and the garlic to the top tier of the strawberry bed.

We worked hard today - maybe tomorrow we can actually have an outing to the Drive In Movie Theater to reward ourselves!

Are you all still sheltering in place, or is life going back to normal in your area?