Still digging

Yep. Nothing much to say today. I’m still in the dirt. Madame Mattock. La Princess Pioche.

These bits are good.

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As are these bits when I stand up and stretch my aching back.

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David helped me dig one particularly tricky area. I couldn’t shift a large rock.

Turns out it’s the mother of all boulders. So that’s beyond annoying.

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A metre wide?

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I’ve marked its most obvious extremities and covered it up. Short of dynamite it’s not going anywhere.

And the garden is going to get a new name. Gravel won’t work.

So welcome to the Dry Garden.

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Feels appropriate.

There was a time yesterday when I thought: ‘and you are going to put plants in this dust?’ It’s going to be a leap of faith.

Especially on the north side of the garden under the pine. Man that soil is poor.

I have about three metres of that side to go and then I’ll do a final raking and go back to the garden plan I haven’t had time to finalize.

Plants – 69kg of them, 130 pots. Arrive tomorrow.

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