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desperanceI have dug over the whole damn vegetable patch, and our local mockingbird is - I am sure - duly grateful. He is patrolling the turned earth, picking out bugs or seeds or whatever it is that mockingbirds eat.
I hope it's not worms, or he'll starve. It is still weird to my English sensibility that I can dig over sixty-four feet of garden soil and not see a single earthworm. I should probably import them.
In other news, digging is hard on a bad back. In honesty, I should probably have double-dug; but see above under "back, bad", for the subsoil here is like concrete. One spade's-depth is frankly as much as I can manage, this year. Maybe next year, after another couple of seasons'-worth of plants have tried to root in it? Maybe.
Come to think, that would be another reason to import earthworms. They might take it on. Oof.
(I believe there are machines that one can hire - but it's only eight foot square, and I am opposed to mechanical solutions to problems that lie entirely within the human compass. If I were making over the whole garden, I'd rotovate first thing - but no, this has to be spadework. Eventually. Not today.)
I hope it's not worms, or he'll starve. It is still weird to my English sensibility that I can dig over sixty-four feet of garden soil and not see a single earthworm. I should probably import them.
In other news, digging is hard on a bad back. In honesty, I should probably have double-dug; but see above under "back, bad", for the subsoil here is like concrete. One spade's-depth is frankly as much as I can manage, this year. Maybe next year, after another couple of seasons'-worth of plants have tried to root in it? Maybe.
Come to think, that would be another reason to import earthworms. They might take it on. Oof.
(I believe there are machines that one can hire - but it's only eight foot square, and I am opposed to mechanical solutions to problems that lie entirely within the human compass. If I were making over the whole garden, I'd rotovate first thing - but no, this has to be spadework. Eventually. Not today.)