SHOVEL TIME

In addition to my Fun with Chicks on Friday, I received the pile of dirt I ordered last weekend.

I’ll tell you what, in all these years, this was the smoothest, easiest acquisition of dirt I’ve experienced. The delivery truck showed up as scheduled, dumped the dirt on the plastic I laid out, and the driver helped me cover it to protect it from the coming rainstorm. Thank you, Piedmont Feed & Garden Center!

Covering the pile with a tarp so it didn’t get wet from the night and day and night of rain that followed was definitely the right move. Otherwise, my lovely pile of garden soil would have become a very expensive pool of mud.

Of course, it couldn’t stay in a pile, so the day came to fill the two new raised beds.

Oscar shoveled it from the pile…

Into the wheelbarrow.

Then he lugged it across the property, and I shoveled it into the raised beds, while he was filling the next barrowful from the pile.

Each bed took about 5 & 1/2 wheelbarrows-full of dirt to fill – and that’s with the bottom half of the beds filled with cardboard.

It looks like the dirt remaining in the pile will be enough dirt to easily fill my two Greenstalk planters and all my fabric pots. That will be another day though!