Garden Variety Embarrassing Confessions
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I've spent most spare moments of 3 of the past 7 days working in the back yard. I'm trying to rake and clean up the yard in general, get our small garden plot ready, and build our herb spiral. While preparing our garden plot I had an embarrassing realization:
There are substantial parts of our back yard which we have not raked since we bought this house.
And we bought this house six years ago.
We have a pretty large yard for suburbia, we don't have kids or even dogs who would explore the backyard, so the areas farthest from the house have been neglected. Like I said, embarrassing.
However, this led to a few unexpected benefits for the vegetable garden.
1 - No grass or weeds to clear, dig or pull up. The raking left dark, beautiful soil behind.
2 - I feel this area has essentially been self-composting all these years. The soil is rich and it smells like life. My husband laughed when I told him that, but I smell the promise and potential of growth.
I have high hopes for this rich, beautiful soil.
There are substantial parts of our back yard which we have not raked since we bought this house.
And we bought this house six years ago.
We have a pretty large yard for suburbia, we don't have kids or even dogs who would explore the backyard, so the areas farthest from the house have been neglected. Like I said, embarrassing.
However, this led to a few unexpected benefits for the vegetable garden.
1 - No grass or weeds to clear, dig or pull up. The raking left dark, beautiful soil behind.
2 - I feel this area has essentially been self-composting all these years. The soil is rich and it smells like life. My husband laughed when I told him that, but I smell the promise and potential of growth.
I have high hopes for this rich, beautiful soil.
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