Quote Originally Posted by tulip View Post
Lisa, that is going to be one wonderful garden! Congratulations!
EDIT: Wait, do you have TWO new gardens? Looks like another one over to the right.
No- that area on the right was a decades-old old heavy 5" thick poured concrete parking area next to the house, it was cracked, heaving, and uneven and thus very hard to snowplow or shovel. Very ugly as well. My DH is so clever that he figured out why not, while we have the backhoe here and the fill freshly removed from the new garden spot,- well he had the excavator backhoe that cement out and haul it away and then use our own fill there and just seed it over with new grass. We have parking enough elsewhere. It was a brilliant and efficient move!

Quote Originally Posted by GLC1968 View Post
(but I think you should have dug that by hand )
I thought you were going to do it? Don't you remember offering??

Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post
Mmmmmmm, backhoe.
Plow attachment for the lawn tractor. Lots of shaking out sod by hand.
First year I pulled out the six-inch rocks.
Second year I pulled out the four-inch rocks.
Third year I pulled out some of the two-inch rocks.
Fourth year I grew beautiful carrots. (And I'm still pulling out two-inch rocks. )
At 55, I decided I didn't want to spend the next few years hauling rocks and killing myself. I can kill myself weeding it instead for the next 30 years, and at least eat well while I'm doing it.

Thanks for the kale seed links, guys- I'll def look into it.

Ok now I hear thunder in the distance again...dire weather warnings of thunderstorms and hail again tonight. It was a miracle the sunny window we had today when they dug and worked.