Notes From Zone 4

Lyle Handy showed up at 7:30 this morning to get started stumping the new veggie patch. Heavy equipment is a good thing. Frank had him move the big stumps to the area that should be behind where the garden shed is going to go. He told him to scrape off what top soil there was

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We got a lot done today. Frank’s big to-do item was to turn the compost. The far right bin of the old set (right near the house) is our finished stuff, and has collapsed down to less than half a bin. It’s too late to spread that stuff now, so he was hoping that the

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It is so pretty outside today, and quite warm. I wandered around out there around lunch time, taking pictures. I think we might be finally over winter, with our last freeze last night. Time to start hauling up the window boxes for the deck edge, I think. The apple blossoms are just starting and don’t look like they got too damaged from the hard freezes or the snow. Here’s that rock that Frank fought with so mightily. It’s a huge thing, and most of it had been buried. Our mechanic came over with his back hoe and got it out, without ruining all the plants I’d already put in the bed, for which I am very grateful.

There was much more time today spent in Frank vs. The Rock than we had planned. It all started out innocently enough. I was transplanting some of my 420 (what was I thinking?) perennials out into the garden. (NH weather is funky, just for the record. Less than 24 hours after it was snowing madly

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