Done! (For now)

Taking a break

Four days of digging, and a 30' X 35' space to plant. !!!!!!!! (Yup, it got five feet bigger at the front edge again - of course it did!)(And now it has been proven to me that 27 + 3 + 5 = 35. Pretty good math for an ol' mom, huh Margot?)
Now I'm resting next to my garden shed, which has been moved twice, so that the Patient Spouse is probably glad his indecisive wife did not put it on a foundation or build it any larger.
    We discussed celebrating by breaking a bottle of champagne over it, but maybe that should wait a few weeks, until it can be determined how much of the goutweed and thistle is actually gone, gone. The removed debris is to the right of this shot, and forms a berm three feet high, five feet wide, and about 20 feet long. Nest step is to cover the perimeter with a thick layer of cardboard covered in wood chips, to try to keep relatively weedless moat around the outside edge. Beyond that, the tall weeds can be scythed short a few times over the course of the summer. The two huge stumps in the back are just inside the fence line. It was probably a bad choice to include them, but they look about half rotten, would be nasty to swing a scythe around, and besides, they've made nice places to put a hot drink, a shed layer of jackets, and for The Farm Dog to perch while he's watching to see if I'm going to the kitchen. Bloom where you are (by golly!)