West Garden
2006.08.11
This story really begins with my frustrating experience trying to grow a new lawn and being overrun by weeds anyway. The west lawn seemed particularly hopeless, so I have decided to till it up and start planting some shrubs and flowers.
Nate came over this morning and we went to Interstate Rentals to pick up a tiller. I figured I didn’t need the big 13 HP Barreto, so I rented a 5 HP front-tine tiller. Then we stopped by Lowes and I bought a bunch of plants.
I soon wished that I’d spent the extra money for the self-propelled, heavyweight Barreto. It’s a lot of work trying to push a 5 HP tiller into the ground. And yeah I know I should have mowed the grass first. And scraped off the weeds and grass instead of tilling them into the soil. Shaddup.
I didn’t seem to be making much progress, for all the effort I was putting into it. Since Nate didn’t seem too sympathetic, I made him give it a try.
Then we finally figured out how to adjust the tiller so the tines dig deeper… a couple geniuses here. That helped a little, but it was still hard work.
So I continued tilling, while Nate amused himself taking photos of us, and my decidedly unclassy surroundings.
I finished tilling, and so we returned the tiller and Nate took off. I raked out the soil and tried to extract some of the larger weeds.
I laid out the plants I’d purchased, but I think I will go with a different arrangement than this.
