Here you see our garden site (behind the truck). To the left
of the truck and garden are our apple trees, our house is behind the camera.
It's late in the day, and we're down to the "last mile". It sure
seemed to take as long as all the rest!
Dig Todd, Dig!
Dig Amy, Dig!
We brought in a dumptruck load (8 yards?) of topsoil. It wasn't
as clean as we had hoped, it took quite a bit of raking to get the sticks
and stones out of it. Jessica didn't seem to mind too much, as she proclaimed
(and I quote) "I'm on top of da world!"
Well at long last the base is finished, ready for topsoil fill to bring
it back to surface level. I didn't take another picture yet, but we did
put down about 4 inches of the rough topsoil to bring the base of the garden
up to surface level, and as close to level as we can. The weather
station is calling for rain tonight, so I guess I'll see in the morning
how far the garden sinks :) We still have about half a dumptruck
load of topsoil which we plan to sift all the stones, pebbles and sticks
out of to mix with compost and fertilizer and spread about 3 or 4 inches
thick for a seedbed on top of this base.
Dig Todd, Dig!
The whole family got into the act, including my supervisor:
The supervisor insisted that she get to take a picture of our photographer
and 2nd digger:
:
In the end, we did manage to get the tree in the ground, and took a
moment to pause for the camera