Spring Has Sprung!

Today it seemed like a very nice day for working in the yard so we consulted with Mr Hobbs, our weather pig, who concurred.  So Brombeere did a little bit of weed work in the flower bed and then it was on to the serious stuff.

The plan this year was to take out the landscaping fabric that has been lurking under our garden space since we bought the place a few years ago.  The people we bought the house from had used this space as a play area so they had the landscaping fabric under some bark.  Then we bought the place and decided we wanted to use the space for a garden.  We left the fabric in place for a few years and kind of gardened and composted on top of it.  That worked pretty well and kept the weeds down for a few years.  But this year it was time for the fabric to go.  Mossbeere and his family have been here visiting for a few days and he was getting restless so we put him to work.  First, survey the battle field and plan the attack. 

Then to work.  We actually haven't ever planted the whole space into garden before so some of the area had gone to sod as the grass crept under the timbers marking the space.  So that had to come out too. Lots of sod.

So shaking the dirt out of the sod, pulling up the long strips of fabric. Hauling it off.  Good thing it was still fairly early in the day.  Wasn't a real hot day but the sun was out and shining on the two of them.  Lots of work getting done   It was cool.  The compost pile that has been out there got thoroughly turned over, the fabric is all gone and the neighbor volunteered to let us use his tiller so its looking very good.

And all that work was supervised by le Mutt.  Pretty fine.