After a quick lunch the gardening class from Pacific High came over for a tour.
After all their questions were answered the class went back to school and I started working on the major project of the day....building fencing for the carrot bed. This is what it looked like before I began...
The first step was to remove the pathway material so I have a place to go with the dirt...
The second step was to dig a trench along the edge...
...the ducks loved this step because I dislodged all sorts of creepy crawlers. The third step was to drive rebar into the ground and build the fence. This is where I ran into trouble. I was almost done but found I needed to dig the trench a little deeper on this end and I found this rock....
I tried to get it out with a pry bar but wasn't having much luck, so I called Levi out to help me. He was happy to help, but he was not happy with the rock...it would barely budge....
We found another pry bar and were able to move it more, but still not enough, so I called a friend to come over to try to help. He said we needed to dig out around it more, so we did. Right before dark the three of us managed to move it off to the side far enough to allow me to build the fence, but it will be sticking up in the pathway. Now I have to decide how to proceed...dig the hole deeper and roll the rock into it? build a tripod and use a come-a-long to hoist it out? leave it and stumble over it? Whatever I do I have now gotten further behind schedule and it does not make me happy.
Kerry is very good at removing these large rocks that hide under our dirt! He puts a honking big tow chain on it, hooks it to the truck (or a bus if it is REALLY big) and drags it out. The only problems is that sometimes it gets dragged across something I would prefer not get destroyed...like rock walls, plants etc. :-)
ReplyDeleteI wish I could have used that method, but it is in an inaccessible part of the garden. I got it out with a jackhammer.
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