| Current mood: |  tired |
| Entry tags: | garden |
Garden stuff
So, here's the new trimmer and accessories in the box...
... and out.
From the top, Trimmer, Cultivator, and Edger. The green bits are hangers for the tools. At this writing, virtually all of the paint is already off the tines and blades.
I don't have a picture of my nicely edged sidewalk and driveway. It was a LOT of work, since it's been a few years, and the soil up front is a very sticky clay. But now I have no excuse to not keep up with it, and it really does look a lot neater, even if my lawn itself looks like crap.
The picture below shows the garden now that I've started working it over with the cultivator. However, I had to stop at about this point because a) my arms were killing me from four hours of work, and b) it was starting to drizzle. Last year when I went crazy and started sifting all of the soil, I hadn't dug as deep at the south end of the plot, so I hit some really big rocks, including some that actually jammed the cultivator twice to the point where I had to take the tines off to get it out. But every year the plot gets better. The rocks are going into the big black bucket so I can dump them off the wall. One advantage a dedicated tiller/cultivator has is that all the weight is at the tiller end. This set-up is evenly balanced, which puts a lot of work on the hand near the engine. This big an area is probably a bit much for this machine. Or maybe for me, since the machine is handling it fine. It's definitely a workout.
The interesting comparison from the last panorama is that basically I did nothing and all the dead plants went away on their own. No burning required.
I then proceeded to vege for the rest of the day, and then actually nap for another few hours in the evening. So much for getting stuff done in the shop. But then, I always set higher goals for myself than I can possibly reach.
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