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Turning Soil

 Potting soul and manure mix for my flower 🌹 pots


Got my soil turn and mixed read for this year.

My dad said mid shovelling don’t go have a stroke on me now.  I was sweating badly and still got to walk this evening and I did a six and half hour work shift today.

But that’s wasn’t even the hard part of the day, I got my garden πŸͺ΄ turned over and four bags of manure in it.

My soil looks great 😊  and the soil looks rich.

Better than the flower pots.


I some garlic has come up. From last spring.  So that looks great 😊  I got lots of garlic πŸ§„ 

It was sprouting this year and looks like it will be a good year for it.


Also some onions πŸ§… ready this year to, should be big for end of year.


I also got a wired fence order in to make a bigger garden o or a dog run.  But I really just wanted to make a flower tower in my red planters.  So I’m getting ready for it in May.


I counted out 30 feet that I’d need to cut out some grass for another πŸͺ΄ garden with the left over wire fencing, just to keep the dog out of it.

I’ll get started on it this year and work on it in the next year.  But I’d like to get it in.  Have to ask my brother if I could dig up some grass for a bigger garden.  We’re planning on being here for at least six to eight more years. With the dog 🐢 living near another decade before we could move.


I’d like to dig up 8 feet from the fence all around the lilacs and hopefully dig that stump out of the ground.  But dig up all the grass turn it over and plant I’m undecided yet what should get planted in it.  Potatoes πŸ₯” or cabbage πŸ₯¬ or any ideas πŸ’‘ people? Send me a message what I should plant in it.  

I was even thinking blueberries 🫐 plants and filling it up with blueberries 🫐 maybe a dozen blue berries.

All I got to do is get out the stump. That’s the big reason of doing it. Digging a big whole in the ground thought I’d even it around it by digging a garden for it. Also the neighbours yard is swarming over with there weeds so that’s another reasonable way of keeping the vines from coming to much over.  Hopefully shave off 10 minutes of mowing but yes I know I’m trading it in for weeding.  I’m good for it. If I could shave off the 45 minutes it takes just to do the back to 1/2 hour. I’d be happy.  Also less yard the dog will make a mess of. Hey who am I convincing here.

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