As cheesey as the title sounds, that's exactly what Steve and I did, and we have the sore muscles to prove it. We spent the weekend fencing our new 2,000 square foot garden. After much consideration, pacing, marking, measuring we brought out the good ol' Ford PowerMaster and started drilling one of five holes that would serve as corner posts around the garden. Sounds easy. It is once you hand dig past the 15 inches of clay. Steve had me laughing with his haunting spiritual songs about digging clay. We spent the first day hand digging, until we could hardly lift our arms, between the 16 lb. bar for breaking up the dirt, and the hand post hole digger, we are definitely more fit today than yesterday. Upon burying each post 36 inches, we started pounding in t-posts in between each wooden posts. Late in the day on Sunday, we got out the rotatiller and went around the garden twice, hand digging our 'rabbit moat'. See photo above for results. That was all she wrote for the weekend, we crawled into the hot tub and thanked our lucky stars for the extra space to grow our own food! Next stop: 4 ft. wire fence and chicken wire in the moat!
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